On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:26:45PM +0200, Kaiser, Hans wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> we need urgently a replacement for our current solution. We used until
> now a own script based on dump (fsdump), which copied after the dump the
> dump-files to dvd-ram. But now we have to big troubles with dump and
> want to switch to amanda.
> Does anybody knows how and can help me to figure out what is to do to
> switch to amanda, but also with dvd-ram as backup-media?

There is no "direct" support for optical media.  It would be a
two step approach much like you appear to be doing now.

>From what I read on the list, those that use dvd's make their
backups to virtual tapes, amanda speak for hard disk acting like
magnetic tape.  They size these vtapes to match what they want
to write to dvd.  Then in a separate step burn the vtape directory
to the dvd.

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