On Monday 28 February 2005 16:32, Fairbank, Bob wrote: >Normally, AMANDA uses one tape per run. With a tape changer (even > the chg-manual one), the number of tapes per run may be set higher > for extra capacity. This is an upper limit on the number of tapes. > AMANDA uses only as much tape as it needs. AMANDA does not yet do > overflow from one tape to another. If it hits end of tape (or any > other error) while writing an image, that tape is unmounted, the > next one is loaded, and the image starts over from the beginning. > This sequence continues if the image cannot fit on a tape.
This should be written to say that the individual tarball writing that failed from EOT error, will be restarted from byte 1 on the next tape if there is one available, not that the whole backup will be restarted. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
