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
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