Tim Kirby wrote: > I was just asked a question that made me realize that it's over 10 years > since I had anything to do with tapes doing anything other than sitting > in slots in backup libraries under the control of a backup application. > > In a flash of deja vu all over again, the question was "do I know of any > (preferably OSS) tape library management apps for a linux box with an > attached library for simple tape archival use. A very quick google > didn't pop up anything obviously useful, but that's always colored by > the keywords used... > > So I thought I'd toss the question out to see if there were any > suggestions "off the top of the head" that I could pass on.
um, you mean like mtx? http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx that's what most of the opensource backup applications depend on. Once it is installed and configured, you can use mtx commands to query and manipulate the library's robot. That, together with the regular mt commands for the tape drive, provides the foundation for doing archives or building one of the backup applications. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[email protected]> --------------- Erdös 4 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
