How to find tapes are loaded and its size

[dharan]

Hi Experts,

I am a working as a remote backup administrator ,We are using fbackup/frestore and Ignite-UX , and also Omni backup. Generally the tapes will be loaded into the tape drives , I would like to confirm the bellow before performing it.
1. How to check whether the tape is loaded or not.
2. How to find how many tapes are in tape drive and size of each tape.

Can you please provide me the needful, Also please provide if any of you have the quick reference or any other kind of documentation which contain the backup functionalities.

Thanks in advance

[Torsten.]

Hi,

try

diskinfo -v /dev/rmt/0mn

it gives a result if a tape is loaded.

"2. How to find how many tapes are in tape drive and size of each tape"

You can only load 1 tape into the drive ;-)

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Dharan,

# mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn status
Drive: HP C1537A
Format: DDS-3 format
Status: [41112500] BOT online compression immediate-report-mode
File: 0
Block: 0

Tape device is online and loaded with a DDS-3 tape.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Rasheed Tamton]

Hi dharan,

For the shared tape library stuff, please see below:

st -f /dev/scsi/st_device -s
st (shared tape administration and -s status of shared library)
You need root for using st.
man st

mc -p -r DIMS
mc - media changer manipulation utility
man mc


And omni has a tool called uma (/opt/omni/lbin/uma)

/opt/omni/lbin/uma -ioctl
gives the prompt. Use the stat command to see the status.

Regards,
Rasheed Tamton