On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:22:41AM +0800, Ryan Pagquil wrote:
> Hi,
>       I'm planning to use two harddisks with same capacity for my backup 
> instead of tapes. On my tape-backup I have 14 tapes which I divided 
> into two groups, group1 and group2, I have a dumpcycle of 7, so every 
> week I consumes all the 7 tapes for each group. Whe I consumed the 
> first group those tapes are marked as active tapes, then I will use 
> the second group. After I consumed the second group  (after a week of 
> backup) it will be marked active and the first group will be 
> overwritten for the following week. How could I implement this if I'm 
> going to use harddisk instead of tapes?

I've used AMANDA with vtapes without any problems. Here's the relevant
chapter in the manual:

http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-filedriver.html

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