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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Tape Serial Number Post 53657 by jorge.ferreira on Wednesday 21st of July 2004 01:44:00 PM

07-21-2004

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How do I label my tapes?

Ok, this is the deal.

The backup is being made by a tar command, directly to the tape. Something like: tar cvf ./xpto /dev/tape

In this script i check the time of start and end of the script and the amount of files in each directory copied. Each of these informations are being sent to a text file wich is created with the "DayMonthYear.txt" format. Something like 01122004.txt.

Another information i would like to put in these text files is if the backup is being made to the right tape. Because the backup of Friday wouldn't be made to the Wednesday tape. Tapes' got to be chaged daily.

So aparently the trick is to know witch tape is in the drive. If i can label my tapes and then check the label in the script, I would have the problem solved.

That's it,

Thak you for all your replies,

Jorge Ferreira

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tcopy

tcopy(1)							   User Commands							  tcopy(1)

NAME

       tcopy - copy a magnetic tape

SYNOPSIS

       tcopy source [destination]

DESCRIPTION

       The  tcopy  utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the
       contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end.

       When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files.  If a des-
       tination  is  specified,  tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro-
       duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.

       The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example,

       example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWesu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)

NOTES

       tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of  ioctl(2) requests.

SunOS 5.10							    10 Mar 2000 							  tcopy(1)