[lug] Amanda question : amtapetype -f /dev/nst0

[Dean Brissinger]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 14:14 -0700, Jason Davis wrote:

> Hello,
>  I am running 
> 
> amtapetype -f /dev/nst0
> 
> and its has been going for 3 hours so far ...
> is this typical?


For a big library without a supported bar-code reader Amanda will load
and read every label on every tape.  This can take a very long time.
Not sure if that is what you're up to though.  :-)
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