Re: Auto advance of tape during backup

Kirby, Joseph S. wrote:
>
> Lou Avrami wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to advance a tape automatically via a
> > tar, cpio or any other UNIX archiving command? Am I doing something
> > wrong?
>
> Look at the ufsdump command. We have a 4 tape autoloader which selects
> the next tape when taken offline. The 'l' option if I recall.

I use this to advance a tape in an autoloader:

mt -f /dev/rmt/1 offline

• Mark Palmer palmer_at_mfg.mke.ab.com