Topic: flexbackup - erase tape ?

[John]

Hi
How can I erase my tape when to tape is full
-John

[FredS]

Have a look here

http://www.myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/flexbackup-howto.html

[John]

Thank you,

>flexbackup -toc -delete
Can you tell me what I have to type for to delete all on the tape.
- John

[FredS]

John wrote:
>
> Thank you,
>
> >flexbackup -toc -delete
> Can you tell me what I have to type for to delete all
> on the tape.
> - John

flexbackup -toc -delete

[FredS]

Or try flexbackup -toc -erase

[John]

Nope

flexbackup version 0.9.8
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

|------------------------------------------------
| Trying "mt defblksize" instead of "mt setblk"
| ERROR: This tape doesn't have an index! (use -erase?)
|------------------------------------------------

and
[root@gw /root]# flexbackup -toc -delete

flexbackup version 0.9.8
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

|------------------------------------------------
| Trying "mt defblksize" instead of "mt setblk"
| ERROR: This tape doesn't have an index! (use -erase?)
|------------------------------------------------

Regards John

[Des Dougan]

In its Mitel SME configuration, flexbackup uses the dump command, rather than one of the other options, such as tar. As such, it does not create a toc on the tape. If you run "flexbackup --help" from the command line, you can see the various options available. A full dump automatically erases the contents of the tape, for example.

Des Dougan

[FredS]

Humm

Try
mt -f /dev/st0 erase