On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 at 2:27pm, Ranveer Attalia wrote > 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....
If the backups start and write the label, then the tapes are considered active and won't be overwritten, even if the backup fails later in the process. > >No. > > I take it there's no way around this but to write a little script > perhaps in order to do this? You can 'amrmtape' the tapes from the config, and then 'amlabel' them with the same labels. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
