My question is about preparing a blank tape to be used by a backup server.
Let's say you are setting up the server for the first time, and are using
Backup Sets A and B. If you put an erased tape in the drive, the backup
server has no way of knowing whether it is from Backup Set A or B, so it
doesn't start the backup.
What I do is manually backup a few files on the tape, thereby forcing it to
be either Backup Set A or B. While this works, I find that it isn't obvious
to my clients. I usually have to walk them through this process. And I
haven't found it documented in the manual, though I looked carefully enough
to find that there is haiku on p. 18. Is there another, more obvious way to
accomplish tape initialization?
Phil Geller
WorkingMacs
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