On Monday 28 February 2005 16:32, Fairbank, Bob 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 should be written to say that the individual tarball writing that 
failed from EOT error, will be restarted from byte 1 on the next tape 
if there is one available, not that the whole backup will be 
restarted.

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