Hello dear amnda-folks, I do have some basic questions I did not have found in the docs or in the FAQ's : I have a Seagate Travan NS 8 tape and i am runnig intel-based Debian woody (3.0) and the latest amanda (it seems to be 2.4.3b4) compiled from scratch with user amanda, group backup, samba support.
I've succeeded in making some tar -backups on /dev/st0 by hand . Amanda requires a non rewinding tape, as I have read from the docs. How could I access the tapedrive with amanda which is a rewinding device, not a non-rewinding ? Could it be that /dev/nst0 would be physically the same device (e.g. my travan tape ) as /dev/st0 without the rewinding option ? Sorry for annoying, but I'm very new to backup and tapes. Perhaps theese questions might be good points in the Howto that is currently written . Thanks for help at first and many greeting from Salzburg/Austria Vlad ----------- Vlad Popa [EMAIL PROTECTED]