On Thursday 17 July 2003 07:44, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>netman.qos AT free DOT fr wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Sorry by advance for my very poor english...
>>
>> Student, i try to learn to backup with amanda.
>> I have an oldie but goodie tape drive Tandberg TDC 4120.
>>
>> What are characteristics (tapetype)for this, in amanda.conf ?
>
>Run "amtapetype -f ... -t ... -e ..." (see "man amtapetype").
>Beware, this program erases your tape, and takes a while to complete
>(a few hours or so).

And maybe not Paul. I could well be wrong but I'm guessing from the 
model number that thats a QIC drive of nominally 120 megs per tape 
capacity.  We've got floppies bigger than that today.  I also have a 
shelf full of the later 525 meg version tapes as it took about 6 of 
them to backup my amiga with them many years ago.  I gave up on the 
format because the drive kept insisting on a 2 month long vacation in 
Oklahoma City every fall, ostensibly to get rebuilt.
It could also be a 1.2 Gb version, which was AFAIK, the highest 
capacity built in that tape cartridge format.

amtapetype will tell the story in any event.

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