On Jul 25, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Alan Brown wrote: > I've been handed a tar backup comprising 66 (yes really) LTO4 tapes. > > For obvious reasons I'd prefer not to have to load the tape drive > manually for each tape. Does anyone have pointers (or even better a > script) on automating this kind of restore?
I'm sorry Alan... I have no idea how to detect that tar needs the next volume, but I do have a script that loads each tape in turn. It was designed for wiping the tapes, but I hope it's useful to you. [dan@kraken:~/bin] $ cat erase-tapes.sh #!/bin/sh # # Copyright 2006 Dan Langille # # This script should be read in conjunction with # http://www.freebsddiary.org/tape-testing.php # # Change this to the location of your script # MTXCHANGER="/usr/local/sbin/mtx-changer" CHANGER="/dev/${1}" DRIVE=/dev/${2} LOGGER=/usr/bin/logger ECHO=/bin/echo echo things echo "${MTXCHANGER} ${CHANGER} list ${DRIVE}" echo SLOTS=`${MTXCHANGER} ${CHANGER} list` for slot_vol in $SLOTS do slot=`echo ${slot_vol} | sed -ne 's/^\([0-9]*\):.*/\1/p'` vol=`echo ${slot_vol} | sed -ne 's/^[0-9]*:\(.*\)/\1/p'` ${ECHO} loading $slot ${MTXCHANGER} ${CHANGER} load $slot ${DRIVE} 0 sleep 60 mt -f ${DRIVE} rewind mt -f ${DRIVE} weof mt -f ${DRIVE} rewind echo "label storage=DigitalTapeLibrary volume=${vol} slot=${slot} pool=Scratch" | bconsole echo 'umount storage=DigitalTapeLibrary' | bconsole ${ECHO} unloading $slot ${MTXCHANGER} ${CHANGER} unload $slot ${DRIVE} 0 done -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Storage Efficiency Calculator This modeling tool is based on patent-pending intellectual property that has been used successfully in hundreds of IBM storage optimization engage- ments, worldwide. Store less, Store more with what you own, Move data to the right place. Try It Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51427378/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
