Jon LaBadie scripted :: >Unless that is a changer you pretty much have it. Write some >write a tar archive to the tape and be sure you can recover it. >Then write multiple archives to the tape using the "no rewind" >version of the tape device. Use mt to see if you can position >at a specific archive and recover just the one. > >You might want to use dd with a blocksize of 32K to be sure >the default amanda block size works ok. Similarly you might >want to explore the mt commands to set compression on/off, >block size, check status, set defaults, ... > >If it is a changer, also explore the mtx command.
It isn't a changer so I can skip the mtx curve. :-) I'll probably need to get into that later though cause I'll eventually need one. I can't play around on this server too much for fear of messing things up. Can I pass some commands by you guys for sanity checking? mt -f /dev/st0 status # works fine (If I know what I'm reading) mt -f /dev/st0 retension # works mt -f /dev/st0 erase # works I need to remember a & at the end next time, ssh won't background it for some odd reason. (^z bg) tar -cf /dev/st0 /etc #? records /etc to tape in /dev/st0 JSR/
