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Hi Larkin,
Though not from personal experience, I have heard that mt will allow
you to rotate the tapes, using standard scsi commands. I saw this on a
freebsd mailing list some time back. Apparently it's a pretty standard
thing.
Regards,
-Jev
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:00:28PM +0100, Larkin Cunningham wrote:
> Does anyone out there have any experience using a tape autoloader drive with
> linux? I am looking at getting a 6 x 20/40GB DDS4 tape autoloader that
> rotates through 1 tape after another when the previous gets full, giving a
> capacity of 120 - 240GB of backup space! My gut feeling is that there won't
> be a problem with the first tape loaded and this can be used over and over
> just like a single tape drive, but I suspect that there is a bit of wizardry
> required to get the tapes to change. A product like ArcServe might do the
> trick, but if I can get away without forking out for expensive tape backup
> software, then all the better.
>> Thanks,
>> Larkin Cunningham
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