2008/6/5 Jack Malone <JMalone@horizonind.com>:
Our company has been offered this tape library free with 200 tapes to do with it. All they are asking is for me to erase the tapes. I'm wondering if anyone here on the list has worked with one of these with Sure Linux an if so can you advices me what software you used to make backups with to it. I have opensuse an sles/sled on hand to use. On erasing the tapes I do not have a degaussers to use to erase them but thought maybe if I setup a backup job to write a few files to the tapes might work.
thanks for any info
jack
Only read the mail lightly before my first post, now I realize this is a full blown tape library, nice gift!! (i'm willing to receive this kind of "junk" too :p). There's a utility to manage libraries (mtx), using a short script using mtx+mt you can automate the mounting of each drive and erase it. To make backups you can use good old tar. Regards, Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org