Also sprach Kurt Yoder (Tue 15 Jul 02003 at 11:31:21AM -0400): > > Michael D. Schleif said: > > <snipped> > > > That's my problem: if I knew which of these tapes is the ``most > > recently-written one'', then I would know which is in the current > > cycle > > ;< > > > > So, how do I determine that? > > Ah. Put one in and do "dd if=<tape device> of=test_header bs=32k". > This will grab the amanda tape header and put it in the file > test_header. In this file you will then see the date of the dump on > this tape.
Perhaps, that should be: dd if=/dev/nst0 of=~/test_hdr bs=32k count=1 Thank you. -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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