I am having trouble with my tape changer and am curious as to if anyone else has this problem. I have a netfiler 740 (w/ Ontap 5.1.2) with a Quantum PowerStore L500 Library (DLT7000). It refuses to change tapes when I run the appropriate DUMP command. If anyone has experienced this and/or has a solution, any input would be appreciated.
Dump only does the automatic unload/reload thing (the urst devices) with a tape stacker, or a library running stacker mode.
To take advantage of a library, NDMP is needed.
This sometimes is a problem.
To test the functionality, you don't even need to use dump. Something like "mt -f rst0a offline" will change tapes when the library is properly configured for stacker mode (or the stacker is properly configured to be itself).
Stephen Manley FS Recovery Enthusiast