Subject: Re: DLT Tape Drives
From: Bryn Hughes (linux@mail.demian.shacknet.nu)
Date: Fri Mar 30 2001 - 11:52:19 MST
Great, thanks! Just tried it out, I made a symlink from /dev/tape
to /dev/st0 and that worked perfectly.
Bryn
>--On Friday, March 30, 2001 9:18 AM -0800 Bryn Hughes
><linux@demian.shacknet.nu> wrote:
>>I've got my YDL 1.2 box backing up to a DLT drive every night. The
>>backups themselves are working perfectly, but what I'd LIKE to do is be
>>able to issue the "Unload" command to the tape drive after the backup
>>cycle is complete. Sometimes nobody gets around to changing the tapes
>
>'mt rewoffl' or 'mt offl' should do the trick. You may need to add
>'-f' and your device name if /dev/tape isn't a symlink to the actual
>device.
>
>--
>Charles Lepple <charles@ghz.cc>
>http://ghz.cc/charles/
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