> "tapes in my library are not full" is not a useful thing to say about > amanda; amanda over-writes each tape, *never* appends. >
This message was from a previous message sent by Jay. I understand that amanda doesn't do appends of backups. However I wasn't aware that a complete backup get overwritten. The reason I ask this is because I thought that during backup you have a brand new tape. If your first full backup excceds the capcity of the tape amanda will report the area and amanda will rewind the tape to the begining of the tape. So say if you have a tape with a few backups on it if the next backup exceeds the capcity of the tape then is the statement above saying that once preexisting backup reaches the end of the tape then will amanda rewind the tape and write over the old backups? If this is the case how can this be changed Craig Hancock -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9P+Y5awsElDuSDs0RAgxoAJ40NBfXWSP5dwsRK6AWZRXP6fNm+wCgpWf4 MwLEwsq3TDVGR8ntq3+w65k= =qTeY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
