On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 at 8:47pm, Martin Oehler wrote

> What will happen, if I "amflush" all the backups in a holding disk
> to tape and the size of my backups is bigger than my tape
> capacity?
> Will amflush write on tape what's fitting, send a little
> error and everything is ok or will something bad happen?

The previos.  Amflush will write until it hits EOT.  At that point, it 
will send you a report telling you what made it to tape, letting you 
know that there's *still* stuff on disk, and telling you to run amflush 
again.  Lather, rinse, and repeat until everything is on tape.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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