We have a tape-robot with tapes to dump on, but sometimes I don't want to dump to tape directly: the data of some small clients, which are available during the Monday morning meeting of their users, should be hold, to be flushed to tape as side-effect of the nightly dumps of the other clients.
Until now I forced this behaviour by making a symbolic link to a changer.conf with effectively 0 slots available. Not the neatest way to do it, but it worked. To make things neater, I tried to use the config overwrite option to amdump. But, saying amdump ... -o tapedev='/dev/null' of amdump ... -o tapedev='null:' doesn't do the trick: Amanda uses the tapedev from the configfile, and I end up with a near to empty tape. Why doesn't amdump do as I tell her, like status in the manpage? (I didn't look at the sources yet, I only read the manpages) Gerrit
