On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote:
> We're moving away from tape based backups and have purchased a large disk
> array that directly attaches to my amanda server.  I'm aware of the file
> driver for mimicking tape drives but should I even go that route? Why not just
> leave the backups on the holding disk?
> 
> Any suggestions/information would be appreciated.

Amanda only keeps track of what was written to `tape'. You cannot restore from
the holding disk without resorting to a manual restore.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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