On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:13 PM, James Smallacombe <[email protected]> wrote: > Oops, yes, I did an amrmtape in an effort to force amdump to use the virtual > tape that was in the incomplete dump, rather than overwrite the next one in > the rotation. I used to do that with physical tapes, but perhaps I forgot > that with virtual tapes, you need to amlabel the again? Iended up manually > editing the tapelist, in any case.
The autolabeling functionality (label_new_tapes in Amanda-2.*) works the same for both, actually. > Yes, I'm afraid they are. I take it there is no point in keeping them, > then? Ah well...maybe someday there'll be an "amresume" to resume > interrupted, long dumps. This would be tricky - I don't think there's any way to "resume" a gnutar or dump run in the middle. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
