We have been trying to solve a problem with NetApp and they have not found a solution yet. We are using a Sun system running Solaris with attached tape drives to backup a filer remotely using the "dump" command. If you fill up a tape, it will not go to the next tape in the Sun Autoloader and it fails. We have been trying to use several different ways of putting in the tape device to get it to continue to a second tape with no luck. NetApp seams to be at a loss to how to do it as well.

Here are the commands we have tried: (issued from the Sun system "jaguar") (/dev/rmt/2cn is the tape drive in the autoloader set to sequencial)

rsh landrover dump 0uf jaguar:/dev/rmt/2cn,/dev/rmt/2cn /vol/vol0/processes

rsh landrover dump 0uf jaguar:/dev/rmt/2cn,,jaguar:/dev/rmt/2cn /vol/vol0/processes

There are several others. If anyone has one that works for sure, please let me know. Thanks.

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