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Re: [Networker] how to avoid tape dismount/re-mount cycle.

2003-01-22 10:53:43
Subject: Re: [Networker] how to avoid tape dismount/re-mount cycle.
From: Tim Mooney <mooney AT DOGBERT.CC.NDSU.NODAK DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:53:40 -0600
In regard to: [Networker] how to avoid tape dismount/re-mount cycle., Jim...:

>Hi, All
>
>when I use "nsrjb -L" to label a tape and assign it to a pool,
>Networker dismounts the tape immediately after it's finished. if I want
>to use that tape right away it has to be re-mounted. given that each
>mount and dismount cycle seems to take about 5 minutes this is a bit of
>a pain. I can't see anything about this in the nsrjb manpage but I'm
>wondering if there's some way to label a tape and specify that it should
>remain mounted afterwards? I'm using Networker 6.0 with an STK 9710
>library.

Jim-

Read the section on `-L' again, especially the last paragraph (about
the -m option).

This is documented in the 6.1.3 version of NetWorker, and I seem to
recall reading about this a long time back, so I think it's been around
for a while (and should therefore be present in 6.0).

Tim
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