On Thursday 15 August 2002 11:07, Marcus Kramer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>we recently installed RedHat 7.3 on our Internet Server. Now we
> are looking for a backup solution decided to try Amanda, which is
> included in the RedHat distribution. We have installed and
> configured it as described but have no opinion on setting the
> tapeype. We are using a DAT device from Sony with DDS2 tapes.

All of this is located in the amanda.conf file, and I'd hope by now 
someone has managed to edit a DDS2 tapetype into the supplied 
example.  If not, here is one such 'DDS2' entry which you can add 
to your amanda.conf:
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define tapetype DDS2 {
    comment "just produced by tapetype program"
    length 3780 mbytes
#   lbl-templ "/usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1/DDS2.ps"
    filemark 0 kbytes
    speed 380 kps
}
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Also, and I inadvertantly clipped that portion of your message while 
clipping that out of my amanda.conf,  if you will consult your 
amanda.conf while adding the above file someplace in the tapetypes 
entries, you will also find a label section which describes the 
permissable labeling format.  You can either stay within that 
format, or change the format to suit your (apparently german) 
native language.  Do whatever you are comfortable with as long as 
the label chosen fits within that editable constraint.  This is 
done I suspect so that one can have more than one set of tapes for 
amanda's use, each 'set' with a different naming convention, and 
amanda will then prevent you from in-advertantly mixing up the 
tapes which is a Good Thing(tm) :-)

-- 
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