My original post "Can Amanda use an Iomega REV drive as a tape? " was answered affirmatively (thanks to all who responded!), but I'm still unsure of how to proceed. I have 2 servers:
Amanda: 36gb-raid-1 (mirrored) -- RedHat AS 3.0 opsys, Amanda 2.4.4p4 72gb-raid-1 (mirrored) -- CVS repository, some user apps & data 33gb Iomega REV rdd other: 36gb-raid-1 (mirrored) -- RedHat AS 3.0 opsys 72gb-raid-1 (mirrored) -- most user apps & data I'd like daily backups, so users could restore files/directories from a few days past. I'd like Amanda to use the Iomega REV cartridge as a single tape, maybe filling it up slowly every day & sending me an e-mail when it's full so I can load a new cartridge, or maybe making full backups weekly. The full backup will eventually exceed 33 gb (although Iomega claims 90gb using their Windows compression). I'd also like to keep the previous month's (or thereabout) full backup cartridges off site. This is roughly what we now have on our old server, with NetBackup making 7 daily incremental bkps & 5 full weekly bkps. How do I translate this to Amanda configurations? Do I need to use work disks at all? Why would the REV cartridge have to be split into multiple vtapes?