On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:25:00PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.

If the image was not being taped from the holding disk, but instead
directly taped was it was created, then that DLE would have to be
restarted.
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