Re: how do you backup up 5 days to a single tape?

[Bernhard R. Erdmann]

> Currently we don't have too much data to backup and we are wasting a lot of
> space on our tapes.  Amanda wants a new tape for each nightly backup.  How
> can I do a week of nightly backups to the same tape and be able to recover
> from any of the 5 days?

Maybe you want to dump during five days to the holding disk (check for
the reserve parameter) and flush them altogether to a single tape.