On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:24:41PM +0200, Sebastian Marten wrote:
> Hello,
> I use a backup to DVD-RAM since February 2006.
> 
> Here the important parts of my config:
> 
> runtapes 1
> 
> tapedev "file:/dvdram"
> 
> tapetype DVD47G                 # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes
> below)
> labelstr "^weekly-[0-9][0-9]*$"
> 
> holdingdisk hd1 {
>     comment "main holding disk"
>     directory "/<path>"      # where the holding disk is
>     use 5000 Mb }
> 
> define tapetype DVD47G {
>      length 4350 MB
>      filemark 4KB
>  }
> 
> ok, then i createt a soft link from /dvdram to /dec/hdc #my dvd writer
> 
> /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/hdc                /dvdram                 udf
> uid=33,gid=6,noatime,umask=000,owner,noauto,user,rw 0 0
> 
> The uid and gid dont work on my kernel (2.6.9-34), so the dvd-ram always
>  belongs to root:root, so i added a line to corntab which canges the
> user to amanda before starting the backup.
> On newer kernel-version this sould work wihout chown of the files.
> 
> To use dvds as tapes you must make a dir called data on every dvd.
> Then you can label the tapes:
> 
> amlabel weekly weekly-01
> 

Sebastian,
do you mean that you have amanda write directly to your dvd?
So you do not have to do a separate dvd burn session?
I.e. not to a disk directory (other than holding disk of course)
and then burn that directory to dvd?


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