--On Monday, December 29, 2003 13:47:55 -0500 Andrew Hall <halla3 AT 
corp.earthlink DOT net> wrote:

> OK..:).  Please forgive if I have used incorrect terminology, so I ask
> again for my own clarification.  Will amanda ever be able to write to
> the same tape a few days in a row, without having to spool to a holding
> disk?
> 
> Say I have an AIT-2 50/100G tape, yet I only am using 20G of data.  I
> could fit a full, plus a weeks worth of inc's on a single tape.
> 
> If this is your design decision, mind if I ask why?  Are there dangers
> in this type of theory?  Just curious.

The danger is that if the tape rewinds (either through user error or
a reboot) then your next backup will obliterate everything previously
written to that tape.
   For most people, the cost of more tapes is much less than the cost
of lost data.

Frank

> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Drew
> 
> On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 12:31, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:25pm, Andrew Hall wrote
>> 
>> > It has been about two years since I actively used amanda, and I was
>> > wondering if amanda can append dumps to an active tape yet?  
>> 
>> It's not a matter of can, it's a matter of will.  Not appending to 
>> active tapes is a design decision, and amanda still will not do it.



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