Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> On Apr 19, 2001, Patrick Presto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I was hoping I could use the tapes
> > and just append to the last backup taken (somehow??).
> 
> And risk having a bus reset rewind the tape and getting a week's worth
> of backups overwritten?  No way!

        Nevertheless it would be nice to have that feature as an option.
        Especially considering capacity and price of new media (AIT,LTO, etc.).
        Unless this will requere total Amanda re-design.
        


> 
> > If I did backup five days to the holding disk and then flushed the data to a
> > tape, would I be able to use amrecover to restore data from any of the last
> > 5 days?  Would I have to do anything special to recover?
> 
> I'd hope so, but you may have to position the tape manually for
> amrestore (as called by amrecover) to find the right image in the
> tape.  But I've never tried anything like that (restoring from a
> multi-run flush tape with amrecover, not positioning the tape :-)
> myself.
> 
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