On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 at 10:09am, John Holstein, IS wrote
> I am about to setup the tapes and currently, I want to "play" with older
> tapes that I have onsite (don't want to waste brand new tapes if big dummy
> (that's me) screws something up). I am safe to erase and use these tapes
> but I am unsure of a couple things:
>
> 1) Will amanda allow the use of "erased tapes" such as: mt -f /dev/st0 erase?
Yep.
> 2) Does amanda have a utility to initialize the tapes? I have looked
> through the man pages and either I am looking over the utility or it
> doesn't have one available.
amlabel is what you are looking for. You *have* to amlabel tapes before
amanda will write to them, and the label must match the labelstr regex in
amanda.conf.
Note that, I *think* you can just amlabel an old tape *without* erasing
it and be ready to go.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
