Fbackups and Autoloaders

[Cresswell Williams]

Hi Experts

I need help in some scripting. I have an old A400 running HP-UX11.00. I want to make weekly fbackups of the servers, but the problem is the Tape Drive is an old DDS3 24Gb drive and it is not a sufficient enough for this backup.

Now, when I perform a backup the system always asks for a second tape to be inserted to tape drive. I wish to wright a script that whenever the system asks for a second tape, it should automatically load a new tape using the mc command from the Autoloader.

Is this possible?

[TTr · Accepted solution]

You can utilize the /var/adm/fbackupfiles/chgvol option in fbackup. This is a script that gets executed when the tape gets full and a tape change need is reached.