Sorry I forgot to mention - the previous nights backup failed, so I was hoping that if I set the backup to the same config as the night before so that I could use the same tape labels, those tapes would be just overwritten when I came in this morning....
>No. I take it there's no way around this but to write a little script perhaps in order to do this? -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 August 2004 14:16 To: Ranveer Attalia Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: recycling an amanda tape On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 at 11:11am, Ranveer Attalia wrote > My backup failed last night because I left the night befores tapes in > there labelled Jul01. and Jul0.2 I assumed that the tapes would be > overwritten. If there a parameter in the amanda.conf file that I can > set in order for it to do this? No. Why would you want to overwrite good backups with ones that may or may not work? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University _______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. MLabs systems monitored and maintained by Tertio Internal Support. _______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Tertio Telecoms (www.telco-tertio.com) Head Office: One Angel Square Torrens Street London EC1V 1PL Tel: +44 (0)20 7843 4000 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7843 4001 Bath Office: Riverside Buildings 108 Walcot Street Bath BA1 5BG Tel: +44 (0)1225 478000 - Fax: +44 (0)1225 478001 Munich Office: Freisinger Strasse 10, 85737 Ismaning/Munich, Germany, Tel: +49 (0)89 665506 41 - Fax: +49 (0)89 665506 99 Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Tertio Ltd. This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ________________________________________________________________________
