Dumping one filesystem to multiple tape drives

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Hi Tekkies!

I've got a Sun E250 that is used as our backup server. We use a combination of rdiff-backup (for the incremental network backup) and ufsdump (for the disaster recovery tape backup) on Solaris 8.

I have 6x72gb disks and we have 8 dds4 drives attached.

My question/problem is:

I want to be able to tell ufsdump to go to the next available tape drive when it hits the EOT mark NOT wait for another tape to be inserted into the same drive.

Has anyone else come across a solution for this?

I've not got any more budget, so I cannot afford to upgrade to DLT or better for the forseeable future.

Thanks for any help in advance,


Greg

 

[PHV]

Why not posting in the Solaris forum ?

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=60

 

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I thought this was more of a scripting problem, but I'll try posting in the Solaris forum as well.

Thanks PHV.