Amanda-Users

Re: I hope this text from the online manual is obsolete

2005-02-28 17:09:49
Subject: Re: I hope this text from the online manual is obsolete
From: Gavin Henry <ghenry AT suretecsystems DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:04:44 +0000
On Monday 28 Feb 2005 21:32, you wrote:
> Normally, AMANDA uses one tape per run. With a tape changer (even the
> chg-manual one), the number of tapes per run may be set higher for extra
> capacity. This is an upper limit on the number of tapes. AMANDA uses
> only as much tape as it needs. AMANDA does not yet do overflow from one
> tape to another. If it hits end of tape (or any other error) while
> writing an image, that tape is unmounted, the next one is loaded, and
> the image starts over from the beginning. This sequence continues if the
> image cannot fit on a tape.

This is correct.


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