Fellow DUers,
This may seem like a silly question (especially if you know the answer), but
I'm going to ask it anyway. We have a number of SUN boxes acting as backup
machines for a fairly large network (say 300+ UNIX machines). We have just
taken delivery of a 2100 with a TZ87 attached and are currently using this
to backup other machines on the network in a similair way to the SUN servers
we already have.
We aren't doing anything fancy, we're just using rdump in a heterogenous
environment to a remote tape server kicked off via cron.
My query is this:
In order to determine which dumps have been written to which tapes
in which order we automate a log sheet printout which prints a
number next to the partition according to the order in which it
went on the tape. We currently do this on the SUNs by interrogating
the tape drive with the mt command between backups.
The SUNs return an output something like this:
sun-machine % mt -f /dev/rmt/0hn
Archive Python 4mm Helical Scan tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retires= 0
file no= 3 block no= 0
^
This number tells us where we are on the tape
However, the DU mt command returns a completely different output which
doesn't seem to contain the field I'm looking for. Does anybody
have any idea where to look next?
Sorry for the long-winded question but I'd be grateful for any further advice.
Cheers,
Carl Porter
Computer Sciences Corporation
Carl.Porter_at_bae.co.uk
Received on Wed Feb 14 1996 - 17:16:15 NZDT