--On Tuesday, October 26, 2004 15:09:21 -0700 Joe Rhett <jrhett AT meer DOT 
net> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:57:42PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > So can you please reconcile your statement and the documentation
>> > above? Or take an action item to update the documentation if it is
>> > wrong?
>> 
>> Unforch, I don't have access to the documentation, nor do I read the 
>> code so well that I could write correct docs from it.  I suspect that 
>> Stefan W. might be the one to ping on this.
> 
> I'm sorry, I should be more clear and less pushy :-)
> 
> What I meant was: why does your statement differ so extremely from the
> documentation?  Or am I misreading it?  

The documentation you quoted seems to have come from the MULTITAPE
file in the Docs directory.  The head othat file states:

    MULTITAPE SUPPORT IN AMANDA 2.2

    Draft 1 - jds 3/29/94

    1. INTRODUCTION

    The goal of this enhancement is to make Amanda independent of the number of
    tapes used per run or even per dump cycle.  Specifically, I would like
    amanda to handle the following:

It is a proposal for future enhancements which have never been
implemented in the production release, although there are a few
people who have working patches to implement some of the proposed
featues (the tape-spanning of a single dump image, at least).
   Although I admit I haven't read all the documentation since my
initial Amanda install several years ago, my experience with Aamnda
shows it never considers an image written unless it all fits on one
tape, so if there is documentation that says it does continue on
the next tape where it left off (instead of restarting the image on
the nexttape which it does), then it is wrong and needs to be
updated.

Frank

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