On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >My 8mm tape drive decided to eat the 2nd tape in my tape cycle. Unless
> >the drive eats another tape, i'm assuming it was the tape's fault. ...
>
> That might be a bit rash. I'd try the drive with a couple of scratch
> tapes first before committing another Amanda tape to the whims of the
> universe.
Yeah, I ran some random tar commands to the drive with spare tapes, and I
haven't seen any tapes get eaten. Amverify seems to be happy with the
tapes made both before and after the incident, so I'm thinking it was just
a bum tape.
Thanks for the help!
)chris(
> >Now,
> >what I wanted to do was to invalidate the backups on that tape, but I
> >can't find a way to do that. ...
>
> man amrmtape
>
> >)chris(
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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