On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:41:32AM +1300, Cameron Rangeley enlightened us:
> I am using Amanda and frequently I am out of the office for a whole day
> at a time. Is there any way to make Amanda overwrite what ever tape is
> in the drive at the time? Rather than skip the backup?
>

Wow, that sounds like a *supremely* bad idea. Why would you want to
overwrite known good data like that?

Your best bet is to ensure you have a holding disk large enough to hold one
night's worth of backups and just leave them on there. Then when you get a
chance, you can flush them to tape with amflush. I actually do this for a
week at a time since my tapes (LTO) hold way more data than I back up in a
night.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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