On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 at 1:30pm, Toralf Lund wrote > Wouldn't append support be easy to implement? Seems to me that most of the > code must be there already (since Amanda writes several dumps to one tape > in its normal mode of operation.) > Lack of append support is a design decision, AIUI. The thought is that it's better to not use some of a tape than to overwrite backups because, for some reason, the tape rewound itself when you weren't looking. Safety and redundancy are paramount in backups, not tape usage. YMMV, but that's the design decision made with amanda (which I happen to agree with).
If you want to fill tapes to the max, then add the disk usages up by hand and 'amadmin force' enough filesystems each night to fill the tape. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
