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Re: Wiping tape label - how?

2004-06-01 17:34:04
Subject: Re: Wiping tape label - how?
From: "Axel Scheepers" <axel AT axel.truedestiny DOT net>
To: "Brian Cuttler" <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>, "John Bossert" <jbossert AT affidian DOT com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 23:23:57 +0200
> > 1) tell Amanda to forget about DailySet100; and

rm your tapelist.* files

> > 2) wipe the label from/relabel the tape?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/tapedrive bs=32k count=1

After this relabel all the tapes.
You might delete/move the logs too if you were just testing.

gr,
Axel


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