Autoloader Commands.... I don't know what I am doing!

[Jenifer Martins]

Obviously, I get a great new DLT 8000 autoloader and I don't know how to use all the bells and whistles. This forum has been absolutely great and I appreciate all the responses to my other questions!!!

I use fbackup, but I have to load and unload the tapes myself. I need a "script", I assume, to tell the autoloader to unload the current tape, load the next tape, fbackup using a graph, etc. Someone said that "mc" command would work. Do I have to configure anything else.... "mc" requires scsi paths, element types, etc... this is all so new. Any suggestions.

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi Jenifer,

I think it was me who suggested using the
'mc' command before, so I think I understand
what you want to do.

Load the tape into the drive from one script
and then run your backup from another script.
We use this attached script to load and unload
the tapes. It is quite good as we don't have any
problems with it.

You will need to substitute your domain name for
the mailed results where it says 'yourdomain'

'mc' does require to know what the robot device
is so if you haven't configured it yet I can
help here as well.

Good luck
Michael

[KapilRaj]

hi ,

i assume you hv only one Autoloader.

hv a look at man mc , Here i can give you some basic examples,

To accept a tape from input tray and keep it into 28 th slot

mc -s I1 -d S28 (-s ....source ......-d ....destination )

Take the tape from S28 and load it into Drive 1

mc -s S28 -d D1

Unload the take and take it to the input tray

mt offl
mc -s D1 -d I1

Rest you can find out from man pages . It's very simple

kaps