Patrick Presto wrote:
> 
> Is this the only way to do it you think?  I was hoping I could use the tapes
> and just append to the last backup taken (somehow??). I would prefer not to
> use the holding disk if possible.  

By design Amanda will not append to a tape.

> 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 don't think I've ever had to recover from any of my amflush'ed tapes
so I can't speak from experience.
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