Hi, On Monday 13 September 2004 19:20, Frank Smith wrote: > --On Monday, September 13, 2004 16:42:21 +0200 Andreas Putzo > > after some tests with amtaptetype i noticed, that the label of the tape > > was gone. Is this an expected behaviour? If not, what went wrong? ;) > > I don't think amtapetype even bothers looking for a label, it just > assumes a scatch tape and merrily scribbles all over it to see how > big it is.
At least, i expected, that it will respect the label. Not a big deal, because there was old data on the tape, of course. But it was a bit confused, that the label was gone. > Normally you only run it on a new installation, or when you install > a new type of drive. It would be nice if it did check for a label > first and not happily clobber some of your data without warning, > especially since one of Amanda's advertised features is that it > doesn't overwrite active tapes. Yes, it should IMHO spit out a warning or decline running until the user specifies --force or something. Also, it should be mentioned in the man page. Andreas
