>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:14:10 +1100 (EST)
>From: Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I am in the process of debugging my Amanda setup and wish to reuse the same
>tape over and over. Short of using `mt erase' to completely erase the tape,
>is there a way I can prevent Amanda from aborting because it thinks I'm
>overwriting a tape from the backup set?
When I was doing something similar, I found "amrmtape" sufficient.
(And "mt erase" would not affect what amanda believes about the tape; it
would merely disguise the fact that the tape is one that amanda had seen
before.)
Cheers,
david
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