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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: Best remote backup method?
To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:29:47 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199608081539.JAA21319@lariat.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Aug 8, 96 09:39:35 am
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> AMANDA appears to insist on doing dumps to tape. Is there something that
> will do a quick copy to a disk?

I think there is a way to do this.  If not, you could always *trick*
AMANDA into dumping to disk:

AMANDA spools all of the stuff that it is going to write into a
"working disk".  The ``taper'' task copies this stuff onto the
actual tape.  If it can't do this, it leaves the spooled
dump(s) (since multiple machines can be involved) in the
"working disk"...

--don