That's most unfortunate and considerably reduces the usefulness
of doing DB incremental backups.  I don't understand what would
be the difficulty of providing an option such NEW=YES,NO (NO
being the default) which would allow appends of incremental
backups.  All backup products that I am aware of allow for
appending incremental backups onto a single tape.

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Robert P. Klein                          KL2 AT CU.NIH DOT GOV
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== Original Message ==
== Original Message ==

> Using the VOLUMENAMES parameter allows the administrator to specify the
> volume to which a DB backup will be written, but any previous backup
> on this volume will be overwritten.  We do not currently provide a
> means to append a new DB backup after an existing backup.
>
> Dave Cannon
> ADSM Development