Sorry 
I forgot to mention - the previous nights backup failed, so I was hoping
that if I set the backup to the same config as the night before so that
I could use the same tape labels, those tapes would be just overwritten
when I came in this morning....

>No. 

I take it there's no way around this but to write a little script
perhaps in order to do this?

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:jlb17 AT duke DOT edu] 
Sent: 03 August 2004 14:16
To: Ranveer Attalia
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: recycling an amanda tape


On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 at 11:11am, Ranveer Attalia wrote

> My backup failed last night because I left the night befores tapes in 
> there labelled Jul01. and Jul0.2 I assumed that the tapes would be 
> overwritten. If there a parameter in the amanda.conf file that I can 
> set in order for it to do this?

No.  Why would you want to overwrite good backups with ones that may or 
may not work?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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