Amanda-Users

Re: AW: Problem: cannot overwrite active tape

2004-06-07 04:52:07
Subject: Re: AW: Problem: cannot overwrite active tape
From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <monitor AT oops.co DOT at>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 10:48:31 +0200
Hi, Sebastian,

on Montag, 07. Juni 2004 at 10:16 you wrote to amanda-users:

SK> Hi!

SK> I don't use real tapes. It's 680GB Raid-System and so these tapes are
SK> virtual. I created one tape and made a test-backup. It is the first time
SK> that I use Amanda and I don't know how to create another blank tape on my
SK> raid. 

SK> Hope this explanation is better?  

You have to amlabel your tapes, even your vtapes.

Follow HOWTO-FILE-DRIVER in the docs.

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at