>will amanda tape out the data that cant fit onto that 40gig tape and
>then onto the next tape OR will it start over again from the beginning (
>as the docs currently say ) ...

If Amanda hits any tape error (including EOT) it will start the current
image over, from the beginning, on the next tape.

>... If docs are correct, why does amanda bother bother
>attempting to write any partition that has more data than the tape than
>the tape can hold?

It doesn't.

>should'nt there be a "sorry can't do that" error?

There is.  If the estimate is larger than the tapetype length field
you'll get one of these messages (depending on other settings):

  dump larger than tape, but cannot incremental dump skip-incr disk
  dump larger than tape, but cannot incremental dump new disk
  Dump larger than tape: full dump of XXX delayed.
  dump larger than tape, skipping incremental

>/gat

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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