Mentioned that drives close full media automatically

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Thomas Schmitt 2008-04-05 11:17:21 +00:00
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@ -1875,6 +1875,12 @@ It might also be that your operating system has a session limit with mount.
Always have a blank media ready to perform a full backup in case the update
attempt fails. An overview of sessions is given by option -toc.
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Sessions on multi-session media are separated by several MB of unused blocks.
So with small sessions the payload capacity can become substantially lower
than the overall media capacity. If the remaining space on media does not
suffice for the next gap, the drive is supposed to close the media
automatically.
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\fBBetter do not use your youngest backup for -update_r\fR.
Have at least two media which you use alternatingly. So only older backups
get endangered by the new write operation, while the newest backup is