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Re: Auto advance of tape during backup

From: Mark Rosenbaum <mjr_at_netcom.com>
Date: 1997/02/03
Message-ID: <mjrE517AA.B0u@netcom.com>#1/1

In article <32F5DF70.2F2C_at_utk.edu>, Kirby, Joseph S. <kirby_at_utk.edu> 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.
>

Try mt. To find out more about tape in general try man -k tape. If this command doesn't work get your Sys Admin to run either catman -w or makewhatis (depends on the system)

hope this helps

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