Nevermind, I figured it out. The answer is mtx, and you have to build it from source. It¹s 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, there¹s a tiny little bug in the install script. If the /usr/local/man/man1 directory doesn¹t already exist, then it won¹t create one, and you¹ll end up with no man pages. I reported this bug, and probably it will disappear soon. I¹m running the latest Solaris 10 (Solaris 10u8 which is 10/09) so this applies to me. And I suppose third (but there¹s already a comment in the README about this) you have to use gnu make, and if gnu make isn¹t the default on your system, you might have to gmake (as I did) in order to be sure you¹re using gmake. In the end, I am happily using mtx commands to swap tapes around, and mt commands to position the tape, and next I¹ll 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" <[email protected]> wrote: > In addition to the regular backups (netbackup) I would like to occasionally > ³zfs send² directly to tape. It¹s because I never trust any one process 100%, > and having all the bases covered makes me feel comfortable. ;-) > > There are two things I can¹t seem to figure out: > 1. What¹s the command to change tapes in the autoloader (stacker)? > 2. When the ³zfs send² 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...
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