"John Holstein, IS" wrote:
> 1) Will amanda allow the use of "erased tapes" such as: mt -f /dev/st0 erase?
It's been my experience that Amanda is happy with fully erased tapes.
> 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.
Once you get a clean tape you'll need to "label" it for Amanda using amlabel.
Make certain that the label conforms to whatever rules you established in
amanda.conf or Amanda will complain.
Matt
