Re: LTO 6 Tapetype?

[Dave Ewart]

On Wednesday, 25.06.2014 at 11:37 +0200, Sven Rudolph wrote:

> [...]
>
> One more reason for using amtapetype: It gives you some basic testing
> of your new hardware and configuration.

It's also worth running amtapetype more than once, with different tapes
(and different drives, if you have more than one 'identical' model), in
my experience.  The results should be the same.

Dave.

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Dave Ewart
da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk
Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit
University of Oxford
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Re: LTO 6 Tapetype?

[Sven Rudolph]

Steven Backus  writes:

> I'm setting up a Storageloader 3 LTO 6 and was wondering if anyone
> had a tapetype for this.  Thanks.

Use amtapetype. From amtapetype(8):

  NAME
   amtapetype - generate a tapetype definition by testing the device
   directly

  SYNOPSIS
   amtapetype [-h] [-c] [-f] [-p] [-b blocksize] [-t typename] [-l label]
  [-o configoption...] [config] [device]

  DESCRIPTION
   amtapetype generates a tapetype entry for Amanda by testing the device
   directly.


IMHO this should be mentioned in the FAQ
().

One more reason for using amtapetype: It gives you some basic testing of
your new hardware and configuration.

Sven