One of my co-workers is setting up a tape backup system. He is using an older DEC TZ877 (DLT holding 7 tapes). So far dmesg shows that the scsi controller sees the hardware and /dev/st0 would appear to be the device to use.
I have little experience with this sort of thing so I don't know how to respond to David's questions which are basically:
How should the tape device be mounted - do you mount a single tape? How can individual tapes be mounted depending on the day of week? Is there a slick way to do this (David likes GUI so GUI=slick)?
Any advice or suggested references are appreciated. Be gentle please, David is slowly breaking free of the shackles of MS bondage... and soon enough he'll be a trilug member too.
-- Ryan Leathers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Global Knowledge
I use these under Tru64 Unix and OpenVMS. Tru64 see the auto-changer as another SCSI device and makes it possible to send commands to the auto-changer. The basic, not for a fee, software included does real redinmentary control of the library.
I don't do that. Under both Unix and VMS I simple use it as a normal tape drive and rely on the fact that when tape 0 is sent off-line the unit will automatically load tape 1 and so forth. Unfortunately, when you get to tape 6 it won't go back to 0. Someone needs to hit a button.
I don't know what happens when a tape is filled during a backup. I always make sure I can get a full backup on one tape. The TZ87 drive is DTL 2000 so it will go 20/40GB. I also have a TZ887 drive that uses a DLT 4000 drive, it will go 40/80GB.
-- Daniel Monjar IS Manager, Technical Services bioM�rieux, Inc. Durham, NC US
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