Sebastian,

On Monday 23 January 2006 08:18 am, Sebastian Marten wrote:
> I have a small fileser at home and I'm looking for a brackup software.
> I found amanda, and i think it can be the right thing for my server.
> But I don't have a taper. I only habe a DVD-Writer with DVD-RAM support.
> Can I packup with amanda on DVD or is this inpossible at the moment?
> I hope, someone can help me.

Amanda does not at present support optical media directly. As others have 
pointed out, you can hack around it by writing to disk (using the virtual 
tape driver), and then burning those virtual-tape images to CD or DVD. 
Another option ,if you have DWD+RW, is to create a read/write UDF filesystem  
on the DVD, and tell Amanda to write to it directly. I think you will need to 
write a custom changer script to make this work.

The good news is that we are working on native optical media support. No 
promises about a release date, but it will be available at some point.

Cheers,

--Ian

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