On Monday 02 June 2003 15:38, Dave Sherohman wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:02:36PM -0500, Brendon Colby wrote:
>> I will have to compile the distro from the Amanda site as the
>> Debian packages must not contain the amtapetype utility.
>
>Debian doesn't appear to include a binary named "amtapetype", but
> there is this:
>
>$ man tapetype
>NAME
>       tapetype  -  test  a  tape in a tape drive and generate an
>       Amanda tapetype entry
>...
>
>Looks like that might do the job.

It will, but there's a new method used in amtapetype, and this is in 
the later snapshots.  The new method speeds it up a wee bit IIRC.

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