On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:18:03PM +0000, Alexander Shenkin wrote:
> I know I'm treading into RTFM territory here, but...
> 
> if i establish a holding disk and a tape fails, i'll have to flush to the 
> correct tape, and then insert the correct one after that, right?

You *can* do that, and I *would* do that, but you don't have to.

If you set autoflush, you can just leave the Tuesday tape on the shelf,
slap in the Wednesday tape, and Amanda will put Tuesday's *and*
Wednesday's backups on that tape (space permitting).

But then that's sliding down the slippery slope away from the
"nice tidy little tape rotation", isn't it?  :-)

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