Hi,
There are a few things you need to be
able to do. 'tar' will work as long as
you don't need to write to a second
tape. Have you considered using the
'fbackup' tools, the throughput is much
faster and will actually fit more onto
your tape(s). What about OmniBack?
You will need to use another command
called 'mc' to move tapes in and out of
the tape drives.
You can get the tape devices from the
output of 'ioscan -fnkC tape'
You can run backups from different servers
as long as the tapes are loaded into
their respective drives by the system
controlling the robotics.
You will need to set up the robotics for
your tape library unit. Attached is a
white paper on how to do this. Before
you start ensure that the following
drivers are installed in your kernel.
These should be schgr for the robotics,
(depending on the model) stape for the
tape drives and spt and sctl. Refer to
the white paper for further information.
If you cannot get it to work post the
output of 'ioscan -fn' so I can help
you further.
You can create a new kernel using the
instructions in the white paper or in
SAM, you choose.
sam --> kernel configuration --> drivers
select the driver, from the pull-down
menu select actions --> add driver to
kernel. Continue for each one, then
actions --> process new kernel.
Be aware of the warnings in the white
paper about patches being loaded.
Make sure that you only control the robotics
of the library from one server only or you will
have many problems, I cannot stress this
point too much
HTH
-Michael
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