On 10/5/07, Craig Dewick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Krahn, Anderson wrote: > > Seems that everytime I run a backup Amanda expects a new tape for > > another one. > Standard behaviour is to use a new tape for each run. There might be a way > to have a tape used for multiple runs but I'm not sure how to configure > for that.
At the moment, there is no way to do so. The feature is called "append-to-tape", and is something we're actively working to support. > At the moment I don't believe Amanda has a way to span backups across > multiple tapes, so when a tape is full the backup terminates. This, however, is not the case -- Amanda supports spanning. See: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Split_Dumps_Across_Tapes Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
