Nevermind, I figured it out. The answer is mtx, and you have to build it from source. It?s a tiny little program, and building it was dead simple. Well ...
There were two snags to building it. ;-) First, the default file download is not the source bundle. I had to dig around in the download page to find the source tarball. Second, there?s a tiny little bug in the install script. If the /usr/local/man/man1 directory doesn?t already exist, then it won?t create one, and you?ll end up with no man pages. I reported this bug, and probably it will disappear soon. I?m running the latest Solaris 10 (Solaris 10u8 which is 10/09) so this applies to me. And I suppose third (but there?s already a comment in the README about this) you have to use gnu make, and if gnu make isn?t the default on your system, you might have to gmake (as I did) in order to be sure you?re using gmake. In the end, I am happily using mtx commands to swap tapes around, and mt commands to position the tape, and next I?ll do some tar or dd or zfs send commands to write & read the tapes. :-) This makes a nerdy IT guy happy. :-) Thanks... On 11/20/09 6:15 PM, "Edward Ned Harvey" <solaris at nedharvey.com> wrote: > In addition to the regular backups (netbackup) I would like to occasionally > ?zfs send? directly to tape. It?s because I never trust any one process 100%, > and having all the bases covered makes me feel comfortable. ;-) > > There are two things I can?t seem to figure out: > 1. What?s the command to change tapes in the autoloader (stacker)? > 2. When the ?zfs send? exceeds the length of a tape, how can I momentarily > pause the data stream, issue some tape changing commands, and then continue on > another tape? > > Thanks... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20091120/896cc333/attachment.html>
