Jeff Dean on Tue, 15 Jan 2002 05:40:18 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] backup woes 

I think it's more like:

  mtx -f /dev/sgX next

I think "mt offline" will just rewind and eject the current tape.

jd

At 01:43 PM 1/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: 
OK, so I changed to random mode, then I made a script (next_tape) which is
called from dump via the -F option. next_tape just switches tapes via: "mt
offline". This does not work either.



Jeff Dean
jdean@ieee.org


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