OK...I'm still reading as much documentation as I can find before I really decide I'm ready to tackle Amanda...One thing that keeps cropping up is that if Amanda hits the end of tape during a dump, it jumps to the next tape and starts over. This brings up the situation where the dump itself is greater than an empty tape. Let's say it crops up (worse case) at the beginning of a run...wouldn't this seem to be antithetical to running a backup? If followed to it's logical conclusion, you could potentially run through your entire tapeset without backing anything up, even though the other backups following the "runaway backup" might happily fit on the tapes. Or am I missing something? I realize this may not be a critical problem (just readjust your disklists the next day) but does seem possible (not to mention a nuisance).
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