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Re: Replacing a tape

2003-12-05 07:28:40
Subject: Re: Replacing a tape
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: "R.M. Evers" <amanda AT hbh-it DOT nl>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 07:25:28 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 at 11:37am, R.M. Evers wrote

> today, i think one of the tapes in my daily backup broke down. it gave
> errors of a bad filedescriptor when i did an amflush. using the next
> tape, things went fine. so i want to replace the tape the next time
> amanda needs it. how do i do this without breaking the order in which
> amanda asks for tapes?

The day before that tape is next to be used, do this:

amrmtape $CONFIG $TAPE_LABEL
(and, with a new tape)
amlabel $CONFIT $TAPE_LABEL

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


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