> > 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)
>

Actually, heh, here's a hint that cygwin can in fact do such things.  The 
sanity of it all is another matter - You can waste a _lot_ of time faffing 
with microsoft-windows and cygwin...

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html