--On Monday, September 13, 2004 16:42:21 +0200 Andreas Putzo <andreas AT 
inferno.nadir DOT org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> after some tests with amtaptetype i noticed, that the label of the tape was 
> gone. Is this an expected behaviour? If not, what went wrong?  ;)

I don't think amtapetype even bothers looking for a label, it just
assumes a scatch tape and merrily scribbles all over it to see how
big it is.
  Normally you only run it on a new installation, or when you install
a new type of drive.  It would be nice if it did check for a label
first and not happily clobber some of your data without warning,
especially since one of Amanda's advertised features is that it
doesn't overwrite active tapes.


Frank

> 
> regards,
> andreas



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