On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Brian Tao wrote:
First time with a direct-attached tape library... the docs don't say much about tape library support, only tape drives.
The na_storage man page mentions "media changers" (must be the fancy new name for "tape libraries" ;-)), so it seems that DOT will recognize those devices, at least. Is there something to "mt" I'm missing, or some NDMP command set I can use? What I want to be able to do are the following:
* unattended level 0 dump of a large backup set, and have the Netapp automatically split the dump over multiple tapes
* unattended full restore of a multi-tape dump
* selective directory/file restore via interactive file selection or passing of pathnames on command line
* loading/unloading tapes in specific slots (e.g., full dump on tapes in slots 0 to 18, then daily differentials on slot 19 only)
I don't need job scheduling or barcode support or tape cloning or anything that would require a commercial backup software package... i.e., I need something free and simple that I can whip up in a shell or Perl script. :)