On Monday 28 February 2005 19:29, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>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.

I would have assumed that also Jon, but a message posted here in just 
that last week or so makes me wonder about that.  Of course with 
runtapes = 1, then presumably it would have retried that dle the next 
evening, but has anyone actually checked?

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