On Thursday 10 October 2002 15:15, Jerry wrote: >I am a little confused but I thought amander never >appends. I noticed when I do amadmin find I see >backups on a different file location. > >i.e. >2002-10-09 bolla / 2 daily7 > 4 OK > > >System bolla, drive / backup level 2, *file* 4. >Does amanda append if it's in the same run?
Yes, thats the only time amanda ever appends is during a single invocation. Each disklist entry is a seperate archive on the tape, with a filemark between them. At no other time is amanda assured that she has total, complete control over the tape positioning so she will not append to a tape thats been written in a previous invocation until tapecycle tapes has been used up, at which point its a total from the start, over-write of that tape. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.17% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
