Hello dear amnda-folks,
I do have some basic questions I did not have found in the docs or in the 
FAQ's :
 I have a Seagate Travan NS 8 tape and  i am runnig intel-based Debian woody 
(3.0)    and  the latest amanda (it seems to be 2.4.3b4) compiled from 
scratch with user amanda, group backup, samba support.

  I've succeeded in making some  tar -backups on /dev/st0 by hand
. 
Amanda requires a non rewinding tape, as I have read from the docs. 
   
 
How could I access the tapedrive with amanda which is a rewinding device, not 
a non-rewinding ?

 Could it be that  /dev/nst0 would be physically the same device (e.g. my 
travan tape ) as /dev/st0 without the rewinding option ?

Sorry for annoying, but I'm very new to backup and tapes. Perhaps theese 
questions might be  good points in the Howto that is currently written .

Thanks for help at first  and many greeting from Salzburg/Austria 

Vlad  

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Vlad Popa

vlad.popa AT sbg.ac DOT at