MSL 2024 and fbackup

[Norman Dignard]

We're migrating our backups from DLT drive to a MSL 2024 on our L3000 HPUX 11i server. We have not bought any backup sw for now as our backup needs have not yet exceeded 1 tape. Our current plan is to just use the mail slot then the storage libray should we exceed 1 LTO tape's storage capacity. Farther out we will be buying Data protector.

In the mean time I need to automate our backups with a fbackup script. I can run fbackup with the tape in the drive but I want to use the mail slot to autoload/unload tapes to the drive. Can someone tell me how to do this? If you have a sample script that I can look at to create my own that would great.

Regards
Norm

[Bill Hassell]

Tape libaries are manipulated with the mc (media changer) command. You can perform a lot of control and status on the library with the mc command. Start by verifying communication with mc -q. Note that you must set the env variable LIBRARY equal to the SCSI passthrough device file. Use the mc -r option to report on the library configuration and the -s and -d options to specify source and destination.