Jon LaBadie wrote:

Have you read the exclude how-to in the <amanda_source>/docs directory?

No, I haven't -- thanks for the pointer. I was just aware that there's a thing
as an exclude list. I'm using GNU tar, so there shouldn't be a problem.

I'm wondering about

bash-2.00$ df -k
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0       385463    257438     89479  75% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6       962571    507261    397556  57% /usr
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3       385463    246616    100301  72% /var
/dev/dsk/c0t8d0s7     17413250  14751224   2487894  86% /Disk2
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7      8335201   6781694   1470155  83% /export/home
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5      6050182   4547150   1442531  76% /opt
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1       770943    310513    406464  44% /usr/openwin
swap                    271088      2792    268296   2% /tmp

though, this shouldn't fail with a DDS3 tape (this is all pretty
compressible data). Maybe I haven't resent the cycle probably.

Is
amlabel -f daily DailySet14
amlabel -f daily DailySet15
etc.
sufficient to simulate presence of a new tape, or need I
actually insert a blank tape, or to wipe the existing one
(how?).

Thanks!