On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:24:41PM +0200, Sebastian Marten wrote: > Hello, > I use a backup to DVD-RAM since February 2006. > > Here the important parts of my config: > > runtapes 1 > > tapedev "file:/dvdram" > > tapetype DVD47G # what kind of tape it is (see tapetypes > below) > labelstr "^weekly-[0-9][0-9]*$" > > holdingdisk hd1 { > comment "main holding disk" > directory "/<path>" # where the holding disk is > use 5000 Mb } > > define tapetype DVD47G { > length 4350 MB > filemark 4KB > } > > ok, then i createt a soft link from /dvdram to /dec/hdc #my dvd writer > > /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hdc /dvdram udf > uid=33,gid=6,noatime,umask=000,owner,noauto,user,rw 0 0 > > The uid and gid dont work on my kernel (2.6.9-34), so the dvd-ram always > belongs to root:root, so i added a line to corntab which canges the > user to amanda before starting the backup. > On newer kernel-version this sould work wihout chown of the files. > > To use dvds as tapes you must make a dir called data on every dvd. > Then you can label the tapes: > > amlabel weekly weekly-01 >
Sebastian, do you mean that you have amanda write directly to your dvd? So you do not have to do a separate dvd burn session? I.e. not to a disk directory (other than holding disk of course) and then burn that directory to dvd? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)