I've inherited a problem and want to attack this in phases. We are
running version 2.4.1p1 and before I upgrade I've got a boat load of
other things to do. Our DLT4000 died and we replaced it with a Quantum 
DLT1. I'm not sure what the tapetype entry in my config file should look 
like. It seems to run ok if I use the old one but I want to verify that
I'm not creating write-only backups. This is what we have now

    define tapetype DLT-HWC {
        comment "DLT tape drive, Hardware Compression"
        length 40000 mbytes     # 20 Gig tapes, 2x compression
        filemark 2000 kbytes    # I don't know what this means
        speed 3000 kbytes       # Should be about twice as fast as DLT
        lbl-templ "/etc/amanda/Daily/8.5x11.ps"
    }

I know my capacity goes up with the DLT1 but we don't bump into that.
What about the other parameters? I tried to run tapetype and got

    ./tapetype: error: ...../.libs/tapetype does not exist

I'm sure this will get fixed when I upgrade but it doesn't help me now.
We are running on a Dell PowerEdge 2400 if that matters.

Thanks for your help.
    -- Joel