Amanda-Users

Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?

2003-01-09 16:52:53
Subject: Re: Make amanda unload tape drive?
From: Niall O Broin <niall AT linux DOT ie>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:56:27 +0000
On Thursday 09 January 2003 20:01, John Oliver wrote:

> Can amanda send a signal to my DLT IV to unload the tape after backups
> are finished, so whoever goes back to swap tapes can just do it without
> waiting to manually unload?

Amanda can't but the mt command can. Just add 

mt -f TAPEDEV rewoffl

to the script you call amdump from. If you currently call amdump directly, 
replace that by a script.



Kindest regards,



Niall  O Broin