On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 at 12:26pm, David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com wrote

> My tape server has a tape driver with a single slot.
> I use the tape driver to backup several client hosts.
> I have two questions after tests:
> 1. Why 'amdump' doesn't ask to change tape when a tape is full?

Amanda can't span tapes with a single DLE.  If you want to use more than 
one tape per amdump, you'll need to define a changer.  With your setup, 
you can use chg-manual, and amdump will prompt you for a new tape.  You 
must also set runtapes > 1.

> 2. How let  'amdump' to override the previous backup?
>     For example, when I ran 'amadmin DailySet1 find cat /boot', I saw
> multiple
>     "cat /boot" in  VOL0001. I really want the latest.

I don't understand what you mean by override.  If you have multiple 
entries for a single DLE on one tape (I think that's what your example is 
trying to say), then that must be the result of an amflush.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University