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Title: Commands for erasing a tape (software independant) ?
Post by: DarkskyZ on October 18, 2003, 10:29:14 PM

Hi,

Are there any command to clean up a tape and erase it that would be software independant, I mean not using flexbackup ?
I experience problem using flexbackup which don't backup anything but even erase the index it created using flexbackup -newtape so I just want to clean all this up before spending time on fixing my backup problems.

Thanks,

DarkskyZ

Title: Re: Commands for erasing a tape (software independant) ?
Post by: Michiel on October 19, 2003, 12:15:10 AM

mt erase
Try man mt for the various options of mt

Title: Re: Commands for erasing a tape (software independant) ?
Post by: DarkskyZ on October 19, 2003, 01:44:40 AM

Thanks, I should have thought about it...

DarkskyZ