Amanda-Users

Re: Amanda Server on Cygwin amdump not working :-S

2006-08-23 10:21:47
Subject: Re: Amanda Server on Cygwin amdump not working :-S
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:15:41 -0400
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:17:49AM +0200, David Sánchez Martín wrote:
>  
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> 
> 
> >BTW have you tried accessing your tape drive with other amanda and/or
> cygwin commands?  Can you tar directly to and from your tapedrive without
> amanda?  
> 
> I do not use a real tapedrive/robot with amanda, and I doubt cygwin has the
> ability to access directly to the devices (there's no /dev fs anyway)
> 

An amanda server on cygwin with virtual tapes!
Now that is an interesting amanda application.

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