On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:30:11AM -0600, Steven J. Backus wrote:
> "Kurt Yoder" <kylist AT shcorp DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > No. See FAQ:
> > 
> > http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/32.html
> 
> How about an amflush?  Say you have more than one tape worth in the
> holding disk?

If that data in the holding disk is from a single DLE, it still
will not meet the requirement that no DLE can be bigger than one tape.
So the flush will fail.

> So what does the runtapes parameter do?

Allows you to split a single dump of many DLEs on multiple tapes.
But still, no single DLE can be bigger than a tape.

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