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.

Jean-Louis
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