On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:35:48PM -0500, Jonathan Swaby wrote: > > > > 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.
It's a tape, it is overwritten at every run, that's the way it works, that's the way it should works (like a tape). 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