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тАО07-18-2000 06:39 PM
тАО07-18-2000 06:39 PM
I have a HP DAT Autoloader with 6 DDS slots. I was wondering if anyone has written any shell script (perhaps using a combination of tar and fbackup commands) to backup data to each individual DDS tape without using Omniback or Netbackup? Is it possible to create a device file for each slot and command the autoloader to swap tape from a script?
Jules
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тАО07-18-2000 07:11 PM
тАО07-18-2000 07:11 PM
Re: DAT Autoloader script?
Manju
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тАО07-18-2000 09:49 PM
тАО07-18-2000 09:49 PM
Re: DAT Autoloader script?
Where can I get the mc "Media Changer" Tool?
Best regards, Armin
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тАО07-18-2000 10:48 PM
тАО07-18-2000 10:48 PM
Re: DAT Autoloader script?
mc is part of hp-ux and it's /usr/sbin/mc
The man page tells you some more details
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тАО07-19-2000 12:52 AM
тАО07-19-2000 12:52 AM
Solutionhere an example:
mc -p /dev/autochanger_spt -s S1 -d D1
tar cvf /dev/rmt/0m .....
mc -p /dev/autochanger_spt -s D1 -d S1 -s S2 -d D1
tar cvf /dev/rmt/0m .....
mc -p /dev/autochanger_spt -s D1 -d S2
The above example will load DDS from Slot 1 into drive, then do tar backup.
After this it unloads the DDS from drive to Slot 1 and load DDS from Slot 2 into drive.
Then do again tar backup.
Finally unload DDS from drive into Slot 2.
The /dev/autochanger_spt must be the scsi pass through device driver for your autochanger (Ie.: major=76 minor=0x053100).
You must have the driver spt in the kernel!
Regards
Andrew
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тАО07-19-2000 08:24 PM
тАО07-19-2000 08:24 PM
Re: DAT Autoloader script?
spt
sctl
schgr
stape
Are they are needed for the DDS4 DAT autoloader?
Also, when you use fbackup and tar to back up to the autoloader how do you know the embedded tape is full in order to swap a second tape in? Is there a command to query how much space is left on the tape?
Thanks.
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тАО07-19-2000 08:44 PM
тАО07-19-2000 08:44 PM
Re: DAT Autoloader script?
Rgds,
Philip
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тАО07-20-2000 03:46 AM
тАО07-20-2000 03:46 AM
Re: DAT Autoloader script?
"Where can I get the mc "Media Changer" Tool?"
Answer: PHCO_16194 for 10.20
Bill Hassell, sysadmin
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тАО07-20-2000 03:09 PM
тАО07-20-2000 03:09 PM
Re: DAT Autoloader script?
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тАО07-21-2000 03:38 AM
тАО07-21-2000 03:38 AM
Re: DAT Autoloader script?
If you really need to strictly separate the backups on per-tape basis then you need to use mc but a more straightforward processing can be achieved by using the changer in its default mode. In this mode the "mt offl" command will automatically insert the next tape so it's easier to continue a multi-tape backup.
There was a neat backup utility by www.adiva.de called xb/xr that used to handle such problems elegantly. It produced tar, cpio or dump formats, full volume or selective path/date-wise, with a directory up front which could be used to inspect the contents in any terminal window and retrieve individual files/directories by spacing forward directly to selected files.Upon reaching the end of tape it would eject the full tape and poll the device every 30s if a fresh tape is available to continue the backup.