Also sprach Kurt Yoder (Tue 15 Jul 02003 at 11:31:21AM -0400):
> 
> Michael D. Schleif said:
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> > That's my problem: if I knew which of these tapes is the ``most
> > recently-written one'', then I would know which is in the current
> > cycle
> > ;<
> >
> > So, how do I determine that?
> 
> Ah. Put one in and do "dd if=<tape device> of=test_header bs=32k".
> This will grab the amanda tape header and put it in the file
> test_header. In this file you will then see the date of the dump on
> this tape.

Perhaps, that should be:

        dd if=/dev/nst0 of=~/test_hdr bs=32k count=1

Thank you.

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