Humm, that is a question.

If you had enough spool area AND didn't mind leaving all of your backups
on disk (risky but no worse than using a tape drive as the output device)
you _could_ fail to mount the tape and run amflush once/week.

    Couldn't you ?

Still, I don't see having a single output tape, you'd have little or
no fallback if something happened, spool disk failure, tape failure,
drive problems...

Dave - not a config I'd recommend.

> hello all,
>   I have read the Amanda site and seen the faqo-o-matic about amanda not 
> being able to have multiple backups on one tape.  Even though I have 
> read this I am still curious.  Is is it still possible to just use one 
> tape during a 1 week dumpcycle and 5 runspercycle policy?  Can I get 
> Amanda to append backups?
> 
> Dave
>