> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:15:10AM -0500, Jonathan Swaby wrote: > > > > I am using Amanda 2.4.3b3 on a Linux RH 7.2 box to dump several > > windows clients to disk. I discovered a problem yesterday with my > > process. I run all of the backup jobs from a script. Each backup is a > > full backup. When one job completes, the next job runs. This all works > > correctly if the backup server is able to access the machine. If it is > > not able to connect to the machine, prehaps the machine is off, the > > existing backup files are overwritten. Does anyone know of a way to > > prevent this from happening? If it fails, I want it to leave the > > existing backup files. > > Which files are overwritten? > Is it the files in holding disk? that's normal if you run more than > one amdump by day for the same disk. Essentially it is overwritting the tape. In my case the tape is a directory on disk. I assumed it would only do this if it had data to write, but that does not appear to be the case.
> > Jean-Louis > -- > Jean-Louis Martineau email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Departement IRO, Universite de Montreal > C.P. 6128, Succ. CENTRE-VILLE Tel: (514) 343-6111 ext. 3529 > Montreal, Canada, H3C 3J7 Fax: (514) 343-5834 >