Vijay, I really don't think you will have a lot of luck getting this change committed to CVS. There are some very good reasons why this has been discussed and discarded several times already:
- Different tape hardware has different methods (and accuracy) in positioning for append. - If the tape fails during an append, you've not only put the current backup in jepoardy, you've destroyed any other backups that were on that tape. - Is your data really worth so little that you won't buy a few more tapes for it? That being said, AMANDA already supports what you're asking for, in a safer manner. You can perform several backups to holding disk, then flush them all to the same tape. This avoids the problem of tape positioning, and all of the backups remain on the holding disk until they are written to tape. The amanda-users and amanda-hackers archives have other people's takes on the matter. Here's Gyles entry from FOM: http://amanda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fom?_highlightWords=append%20tape&file =29 > -----Original Message----- > From: Vijay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 12:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: help on append to tape feature > > > hi group, > i'm planning to add "append to tape" feature in > amanda. ie.. In case > of smaller dump size. amanda needs an unused tape for dump. i > would like > amanda to dump these smaller tapes in an available tape by > appending. so i > would like to get help regarding this. i found that this module needs > developers. i would like to contribute. i suppose the taper > module of amanda > needs changes. any help regarding this will be greatly appreciated. > > Vijay >