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> 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.


> 
> Jean-Louis
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