> I have been useing amanda for a few weeks now and am pleased with the
> results. Though I have had some problems with the labels on the amanda
> tapes. I have a VXA tape drive and V17 tapes and the labels are
> getting erased at random times???
>
> Is this a faulty tape issue or one of my settings?
>
> This is the tapetype:
>
> define tapetype VXA {
>         comment "Ecrix VXA-1 V17"
>         speed 2540 kbytes
>         length 30609 mbytes
>         filemark 2141 kbytes
> }
>
> Any light on this problem would be great because redoing the labels on
> tapes is a waste of my time.

have you done any amtapetypes recently? This will erase the label. Other
than this i have only ever had one tape loose its label in over 3 years. The
tape type looks fine.

Tom