> is there an elegant way to determine how many ufsdumps are on a tape? > > In what is a gross "hack," I simply issue several commands like: > > "mt -f /dev/rmt/0n fsf 1" > > until I get an error. When at the last file, issuing that > command again responds with: > > "/dev/rmt/0 fsf 1 failed: I/O error" (note that it was simply a typo in the email that it didn't say /dev/rmt/0n before) several said that often things (esp device drivers) are done precisely like that - loop until you get an error. So I went forward with that, until the oem suggestions... doing the following: mt -f /dev/rmt/0n eom let COUNT=`mt -f /dev/rmt/0n status|awk '/file/ {print$3}'` with that, COUNT is the num of archives on the tape. Tada! Then "ufsrestore -tvf" can be used to verify the contents one after the other, based on that. I had seen/used oem before, but Meh. I'm used to using high-level backup utils (Netbackup, etc) so I guess I got spoiled. Thanks to those that replied! Brian LaMere _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Sep 22 14:49:22 2005
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