Re: Automating a tar -M... Looking for ideas

From: cyber0ne (ddonahue_at_ccs.neu.edu)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: 30 Dec 2004 18:56:49 -0800

Further and more finely tuned Googling seems to have turned up my own
answer: Replace mt's -M prompt (see mt man page) with a script such
as:

#!/bin/sh

/bin/mt -f /dev/tape rewoffl
while /bin/mt -f /dev/tape status | grep DR_OPEN
do
sleep 60
done

Granted, this won't be fully tested until my first tape finishes (when
I wake up in the morning), but it looks like it should work. Let me
know if you have any other insights, though.
Regards,
David P. Donahue
ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu

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