is this true still?
for my large library, i had to switch to freebsd because mtx is
unsupported and relies
on all the library info fitting in one I/O. which works for my 400
slot library
but does not work for a 2000 slot library.
the freebsd chio stuff (morally equivalent to mtx) is simply better
all round, and offers
a richer model of tape library operation.
linux sorely needs to import chio.
On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
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.
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