On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 at 12:55pm, Toralf Lund wrote

Paul Bijnens wrote:

Taping one DLE is several "runs" opens a can of worms:  you have to
add a notion of "partial" succeeded.  Restoring then needs some tapes
and some holdingdisk files.  What if the holdingdisk crashes or
accidently rm the files before all of it is written to tape? etc.

This would be a bit of an issue, of course. I'm wondering if the would the situation be that much different from the one we have today, though. Holding disk crash or file removal is always going to be a serious problem, of course. But if you have a partial tape dump of the data, you will at least be able to recover some of it... Maybe it would be wise to keep all data on the

What happens in the current version if amdump is interrupted while writing the 2nd tape, by the way?

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University