10-06-2004
Found this in a post on the 'Net
Quote:
tape amount may return 1 of 2 pieces of data
1. last or current transfer: 0K ( This would show the amount transfered)
2. device identification string - %Stp0 - - - Vendor = Aiwa Product =
ts-200001 flowwed by a new line and "last or current transfer: 0K
Since it states last or current transfer, are you doing mulitple tar commands and only getting the info from the last (which is smaller than the whole)? Or, are you actually reading some number from the vendor model? Does your number change (the 26543k was written to tape) or stay the same?
If it's only reading the last transfer, or attempting to read from each transfer, then there is something missing in the logic. When running the tape command for each transfer, you would have to add that amount to a variable, increasing it each time a tar/dump/whatever is run.
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backup_listhosts
BACKUP_LISTHOSTS(8) AFS Command Reference BACKUP_LISTHOSTS(8)
NAME
backup_listhosts - Lists Tape Coordinators registered in the Backup Database
SYNOPSIS
backup listhosts [-localauth] [-cell <cell name>] [-help]
backup listh [-l] [-c <cell name>] [-h]
DESCRIPTION
The backup listhosts command displays the Backup Database record of the port offset numbers defined for Tape Coordinator machines. A Tape
Coordinator must have an entry in the list to be available for backup operations.
The existence of an entry does not necessarily indicate that the Tape Coordinator process (butc) is currently running at that port offset.
To check, issue the backup status command.
OPTIONS
-localauth
Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. The backup command interpreter presents it to
the Backup Server, Volume Server and VL Server during mutual authentication. Do not combine this flag with the -cell argument. For more
details, see backup(8).
-cell <cell name>
Names the cell in which to run the command. Do not combine this argument with the -localauth flag. For more details, see backup(8).
-help
Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.
OUTPUT
After a "Tape hosts:" header, the output reports two things about each Tape Coordinator currently defined in the Backup Database:
o The hostname of the machine housing the Tape Coordinator. The format of this name depends on the hostname format used when the backup
addhost command was issued.
o The Tape Coordinator's port offset number.
The Tape Coordinators appear in the order in which they were added to the Backup Database.
EXAMPLES
The following example shows the result of the command in the ABC Corporation cell:
% backup listhosts
Tape hosts:
Host backup1.abc.com, port offset 0
Host backup1.abc.com, port offset 1
Host backup3.abc.com, port offset 4
Host backup2.abc.com, port offset 3
PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer must be listed in the /etc/openafs/server/UserList file on every machine where the Backup Server is running, or must be logged
onto a server machine as the local superuser "root" if the -localauth flag is included.
SEE ALSO
backup(8), backup_addhost(8), backup_delhost(8), backup_status(8)
COPYRIGHT
IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.
This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas
Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.
OpenAFS 2012-03-26 BACKUP_LISTHOSTS(8)