The manual mentions using a disk to disk to tape setup, but I can find
the best way to set one up. I've searched the mailing list as well, but
haven't found anyone talking about.
Right now I have amanda backing up to several vtapes on my disk. What
is the best way to move the vtape to disk?
1) Create another amanda config which does a full backup to tape on
Saturdays, and not run my normal backup on that day.
2) Create an amanda config with the vtape as a DLE. But then I wouldn't
actually know what individual files were on the tape.
3) dd the contents of the vtape to tape. Then relabel the vtape from
tape23 to tape24. So amanda would think tape 23 is out there some
where. When it asks for the tape to do a restore, I simply dd the tape
into a vtape.
Is there another method? What do you use? I'm thinking number three
would be the simplest and easiest to restore from.
Thanks.
