Re: Auto advance of tape during backup

From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho_at_mne.ifi.uio.no>
Date: 1997/02/06
Message-ID: <1rk9om2n25.fsf@mne.ifi.uio.no>#1/1

[Lou Avrami]

| [Using tar to backup database files onto a tape stacker]
|
| The problem that we're experiencing is that our largest
| databases are over 10 gig, and the capacity of the 4mm tapes are
| just under 10 gig. So towards the end of the backup we get "End of
| Medium" messages, and files don't get sent to tape.

I haven't worked with stackers, but have you tried GNU tar's -M switch? You may need to use -F in addition, pointing at a script doing "mt -f /dev/rmt/1 offline", as Mark Palmer suggested.

Kjetil T. Received on Thu Feb 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CST