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[flexbackup-help] 2 flexbackup questions.

[John B. <ben...@th...>]

Hello,

I have just joined this list and did read some of the archives, but
didn't think my Q's were addressed.

I have inherited a DLT4700 and want to know if flexbackup supports tape
changers?  I'd like to set up flexbackup to use a different slot per day
for backups.  Is there a way to make flexbackup eject the current tape,
then load the next tape and begin the backup.  Second, does flexbackup
support spanning of tapes?  I think the answer to this is no, not
currently, but may be being worked on.

Thanks for your help,

JB

Re: [flexbackup-help] 2 flexbackup questions.

[Charlie B. <cha...@e-...>]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, John Bennett wrote:

> I have inherited a DLT4700 and want to know if flexbackup supports tape
> changers?  I'd like to set up flexbackup to use a different slot per day
> for backups.  Is there a way to make flexbackup eject the current tape,
> then load the next tape and begin the backup.

I think you'd do that outside of flexbackup, in your cron script (or 
whatever you use for scheduling):

n=`which_tape_for_today`
mtx load $n && flexbackup ... && mt rewoffl

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Charlie