Re: tape changers and shell scripts

2002-06-04 Thread Bartho Saaiman
I have a HP 6 tape loader and use the following in a script file that runs every night. I backup to 5 tapes every night -- # Specify the tape changer device chgdev=/dev/sg5 # Clean the read/write tape device (/dev/nst1) mtx -f "$chgdev" last # Initialise the tape changer with the 1st tape mtx

tape changers and shell scripts

2002-06-04 Thread grepcomputers
I've read the FAQ, and the docs directory. I downloaded mtx (2.16rel) and installed it. Because I am relatively new to linux, I am finding the documentation a *little* hard to understand... :-/ system: alpha running redhat 6.2 autoloader: TSL-A500C (AIT Autoloader Unit) I'm still a little unsu