Hi,
I am evaluating using amanda to control a
sun storedge L280 library tape drive system (Quantum DLT7000)
connected to a sparc solaris server. I want to know if amanda
is able to cycle through and reuse the tapes in the 6 slots
on the drive.
The problem is that using solaris mt command:
# mt -f /dev/rmt/0 offline
I can only cycle through the tapes in the 6 slots once.
Once the last slot has been used, the drive goes into 'loader ready'
state and the tapes in any of the slots are not loaded anymore.
One has to physically load the tape using the front control panel
on the tape drive. This is not acceptable because the server
is located at a remote data center and we want to reuse the tape
many times before changing them.
Does anyone have any exprience using amanda to control this
kind of tape drive automatically?
Thanks for any info.
Richard
