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Re: [Networker] Tape Positioning by Record is Disabled on AIT Drives??????

2003-12-17 03:09:12
Subject: Re: [Networker] Tape Positioning by Record is Disabled on AIT Drives??????
From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen AT AKERKVAERNER DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 03:09:11 -0500
Matt Temple wrote:

>You may have answered a question that just came up.   I don't recycle
>tapes, I relabel them, so their Volume number  (ex linux.0350) keeps
>going up.  Do we now agree that thisw is the case: Recycling doesn't
>implement new block sizes but relabeling does?  (When you relabel, even
>if you don't remove the volume first, I think the new blocksize is
>implemented.

Let me annoy you: If you relabel in Networker, you re-use the volume name.
If you label, you get a new volume name.

greetings,

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