> How do I blank a tape? amlabel -f ? ...
It depends on what you mean by "blank". Once you amlabel a tape, you may
continue to use it with Amanda (as long as you don't change labelstr).
You do not need to re-amlabel it every time it comes back around in
the cycle. Why did you want to "blank" the tape?
You mentioned you only had one tape. First of all, I hope you get at
least one more :-). Depending on a single tape is a recipe for disaster.
Second, you should be able to set tapecycle to 1 in amanda.conf, and that,
in turn, should just keep reusing the same tape.
Also, since dumpcycle must be less than or equal to tapecycle, I'd suggest
setting dumpcycle to zero until you get more tapes. That will effectively
do a full dump every time, which makes sense with only one tape.
> Casey
>
> PS Thank you John Jackson for your presentation to PLUG.
You're welcome! Sorry it ran so long.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
