xfsdump and LTO autoloaders

[Goldfish75]

We have just purchased a HP SSL1016 autoloader from SGI and have it working in its most basic form. I have installed MTX to look after the robot controls however I cannot get XFSDump to change to the next tape when it hits EOT. SGI support suggest that XFSDump will not support a tape change when run in scripted mode, and that we should purchase Legato Networker for an addition fee!!!! I need to know if anyone has or is using the xfs -c option to call a script when it hits the EOT. Theoretically I should be able to call an mtx script that changes to the next tape and then resumes the dump, but I cannot seem to get it to work.

 

[tamvuong]

Hi there,

It did work with xfsdum -c.
Take a look at my tapechange.sh

#!/bin/sh
TAPE_DEVICE=
WORK_DIR=
STACKER_SLOT=$WORK_DIR"stacker_slot.txt"
CUR_SLOT=`cat $STACKER_SLOT`
MAX_SLOT=9

if [ "$1" = "reset" ] ; then
CUR_SLOT=0
fi

if [ $CUR_SLOT -gt 0 ]; then
echo "Unload tape into slot $CUR_SLOT"
stacker -u $CUR_SLOT
sleep 60
fi

if [ $CUR_SLOT -lt $MAX_SLOT ] ; then
CUR_SLOT=`expr $CUR_SLOT + 1`
echo $CUR_SLOT > $STACKER_SLOT
echo "Load tape from slot $CUR_SLOT"
stacker -l $CUR_SLOT
sleep 60

 

[tamvuong]

It's me again
With xfsdump
Don't use -F option when you want to use -c option

 

[Goldfish75]

Tamvuong, Thanks for your post. This project has been on the back burner for some time now. I am unfortunately not a scripting guru and dont quite understand where the STACKER_SLOT=$WORK_DIR"stacker_slot.txt" fits in. Could you expand a bit on that for me. Cheers