On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:25:00PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 28 February 2005 16:32, Fairbank, Bob wrote: > >Normally, AMANDA uses one tape per run. With a tape changer (even > > the chg-manual one), the number of tapes per run may be set higher > > for extra capacity. This is an upper limit on the number of tapes. > > AMANDA uses only as much tape as it needs. AMANDA does not yet do > > overflow from one tape to another. If it hits end of tape (or any > > other error) while writing an image, that tape is unmounted, the > > next one is loaded, and the image starts over from the beginning. > > This sequence continues if the image cannot fit on a tape. > > This should be written to say that the individual tarball writing that > failed from EOT error, will be restarted from byte 1 on the next tape > if there is one available, not that the whole backup will be > restarted.
If the image was not being taped from the holding disk, but instead directly taped was it was created, then that DLE would have to be restarted. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)