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

[Jason Davis]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:10, Dean Brissinger wrote:
> 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?


its just one drive with a tape in it.

thanks,
jd

> 
> 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.  :-)