Hi, amanda allways rewinds the tape before writing a new session to it, because it first checks the label of the tape and the rewrites the label with the new date of the backup-run, so in this case (travan) you don't have to worry about rewinding the tape before unloading it. Christoph
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Hallo Gene, > > Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 11:32:29 PM, you wrote: > > GH> So you should be using the /dev/nst(number) descriptor as it doesn't do > GH> an automatic rewind as it closes the path. Amanda will rewind the tape > GH> by herself when she needs it rewound. > > When using the HP Colorado 8GB Drive it ain�t necessary to make a "mt > offl" to get the tape out, so it isn�t done at my customer�s site. > Will Amanda rewind the the tape next time it is used ? > We get some strange "out of tape"-errors and yesterday it came to my > mind that those missing "mt offl"-commands could be responsible. > Otherwise amcheck has to rewind the tape when checking the label ... > > Stefan > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
