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Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Changer Utility for Solaris

2007-09-09 13:57:49
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Changer Utility for Solaris
From: "Tim Hoke" <thoke AT northpeak DOT org>
To: selwyn <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>, VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:41:01 -0500
More specifically, use the appropriate *test utility and pipe the
commands to it... for a tld type robot you might do the following to
move slot 1 to drive 1:

echo "m s1 d1" | tldtest -r /dev/sg/<robotic_device>

I'm not at my system right now, but I seem to recall that being the usage.

HTH
-Tim

On 9/9/07, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, selwyn wrote:
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> >
> > I had written a script to match locations of robotic drives with their 
> > device path for HP-UX.  I used the mc utility to move a tape from one drive 
> > to the next and then used mt to find out which device path matched the 
> > physical drive path.  I would like to do create a script for solaris to do 
> > the same task, but there is no mc utility native to Solaris.
> >
> > Can anyone point me a solaris equivalent for the HP-UX mc utility?
> >
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> Why not just use robtest?
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