[2351] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: how to force tapes to expire
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Wed Apr 24 02:19:12 1996
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>, sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 24 Apr 1996 02:19:00 -0400
In-Reply-To: Jonathon Weiss's message of Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:17:41 EDT
>>>>> "Jonathon" == Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> You can use the labeltape command to force labeling of a tape.
>> It will notice that the tape is expired and will ask you in the
>> BUTC window if you really want to relabel it, to which you say
>> yes. Then, you can write anything to the tape.
Jonathon> To be blunt, these directions are not sufficient. I
Jonathon> need a specific invocation for label tape, and it should
Jonathon> be added to the HOWTO-BACKUP-3.4A instruction file.
At the backup prompt, type labeltape and press return; go to
the BUTC prompt, read the prompt, make sure it is reasonable, type y
and press return.
Marc, do you want to deal with updating the howto or shall I?
Jonathon> Jonathon
