On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Dams wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all.
> >
> > This is not a problem.. just a wish..
> > I have to install amanda on one server of mine and I didn't know the
> > tapetype i had to use. In some HOWTO found on the web, they say :
> >
> > [from http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda-12.html]
> > �If the media type is not listed and there are no references to it in
> > the mailing list archives, go to the tape-src directory, make tapetype,
> > mount a scratch tape in the drive and run ./tapetype NAME DEV where NAME
> > is a text name for the media and DEV is the no-rewind tape device with
> > hardware compression disabled. This program rewinds the tape, writes
> > random data until it fills the tape, rewinds, and then writes random
> > data and tape marks until it fills the tape again. This can take a very
> > long time (hours or days). When finished, it generates a new tapetype
> > section to standard output suitable for adding to the amanda.conf file.
> > Post the results to the amanda-users mailing list so others may benefit
> > from your effort.�
> >
> > The fact is that "tapetype" is not inside the i386.rpm packages.. Could
> > RH include it ? It may be a useful not to get the src.rpm, and not to
> > untargz, ./configure & make -C tape-src tapetype ..
> > Should i bugzilla this ?
>
> Sure, why not? We have a bugzilla category called "enhancement" for these
> wish-list ideas.
Oops! Trond says it's already fixed. How's that for fast service?
:)
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Chris Kloiber, RHCE
Enterprise Support - Red Hat, Inc.
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