SUMMARY: how to use tape autoloader?

From: James Zhao (James.Zhao@w-trade.com)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 09:21:13 CDT


1) in sequential mode, 'mt offline' will load the next tape in the library
automatically;
2) using utilities such as mtx, stctl, following are some useful links:

http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cxh/sapub/mtx.html
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cxh/sapub/juke.html
http://www.hiarc.com
http://www.storagetek.com/StorageTek/software/acsls/
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~eric/stctl/
http://www.pcisys.net/home/c/craigw/sst/

Thanks to:
        Jay Lessert <jayl@latticesemi.com>
        Mark Hargrave <hargrme@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov>
        John Cosimano <jmc@frb.gov>
        Christian Haul <haul@dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
        Lefteris Skapetis <skapetis@intranet.gr>
        Torsten Robert Kirschner <torsten.kirschner@chello.no>
        "Hummers, Rick (Frederick)" <hummers@enterasys.com>
        "jonathan.loh" <jonathan.loh@bankofamerica.com>
        "David H. Brierley" <dhb@ssd.ray.com>
        Thomas Knox <knoxth@cch.com>
        Richard Lathom <fzyd6w@loa.lad.gmeds.com>
        Tim Evans <Tim_Evans@troweprice.com>
        Marcelino Mata <mmata@multiinc.com>

James Zhao wrote:

> I plan to use HP SureStore DAT24x6 for my solaris Ultra-2 backup,
> without any backup software, how can I tell the tape autoloader to load
> one different catridge everyday and do the backup? ( I am just using tar
> ).
>
> TIA.
>
> James



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