On Thursday 20 June 2002 09:45, Anthony Hinsinger wrote: >Hello, > >i've just installed amanda on a debian woody. >i'd like to test 9 tapes (my tapecycle) without waiting 2 week > (the dumpcycle, ... runspercycle is set to 8) >how does amanda will work if i launch 9 times amdump on a day for > my test ? > Probably not too well. Amanda dates the backups only by the date and doesn't use an instant timestamp that I know of. So basicly, it would *probably* wind up overwriting the last pass with the current pass's data each time you ran it.
There is an outside chance it might make a duplicated date backup with a -1, -2 etc appended, but I've not seen any discussion about that on this mailing list. John R. Jackson would probably have the definitive answer on that however, and will correct me (please do John) if I'm wrong. >Thanks >Anthony -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.0% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
