On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:35:07PM -0500, Craig Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I am at a total lose as to where you are in understanding tape usage. > > Let me try a few statements and see where they lead you. > > > > A single tape will never hold more than one amdump run at a time. > > (I'm ignoring amflush situations for now) > > > > A single amdump run if larger than a single tape can be placed on > > multiple tapes if the runtapes parameter is > 1. > > > > Once it tries to use a tape, amanda will not attempt to reuse that > > tape until it uses tapecycle minus 1 more tapes, i.e. will not reuse > > a tape until it has gone through an entire tapecycle of tapes. > > > > When a tape is reused, it is completely overwritten, from the beginning > > of the tape, destroying whatever was on the tape. > > > If I understand this correctly once a tape goes through an entire > tape cycle it will be overwritten. So say a tape with 100G capacity > has 60 gigs on it. If my tapecycle was at 4 weeks then when the tape > in question is loaded after 4 weeks does amanda start at the point > were the tape is meaning the last track it left off on or is the > taped rewind.
Copied from above: > > > > When a tape is reused, it is completely overwritten, from the beginning > > of the tape, destroying whatever was on the tape. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
