On 2006-04-04 16:54, Bruce Thompson wrote:

I'm trying to get amanda 2.5.0 set up on a small network at home. I've got one large partition I'm using as a disk tape area where I've got DVD sized tapes that I will burn to

DVD-R as they complete.

[...]

define tapetype HARD_DISK {
    length 4000 mbytes
}

You can even put a little bit more on a DVD, see:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions#Virtual_tapes

define tapetype DVD47 {
    comment "A 4.7 Gbyte DVD-sized vtape"
    length 4482 mbytes
    filemark 4 kbytes
}



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