On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Karl Burkett <[email protected]> wrote: > When using gtar to do a backup to virtual tapes where the session spans > across two tapes, the failed tar file on the first tape is kept on the > virtual tape. Is there a way to tell amanda to erase the failed backup > to save the disk space?
This is a great idea, but actually the need for it has just been removed, as Amanda will no longer write partial (aka useless) parts to vtapes. See http://code.v.igoro.us/archives/59-Whats-New-in-Amanda-The-End-of-Fragmentation.html for more details. If you think this feature is still necessary, it would actually be a fairly simple change to the taper, although it would need a new configuration parameter to control it. Do you want to give it a shot? Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
