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Old 06-20-2006, 04:15 AM   #1
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Tape Forwarding in Solaris


Hello y'all,

I am running Solaris 8 on SPARC. I access the machine from RHEL 3 using rlogin. I want to know how I can forward a tape to start writing from the last backup.

The command "mt -f /dev/rmt/1 forward" does not work on the Solaris machine. The tape drive is IBM 3590 mounted on /dev/rmt/1.

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Old 06-20-2006, 08:50 AM   #2
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I believe it's

mt -f /dev/rmt/1 fsf 1
 
Old 06-20-2006, 03:20 PM   #3
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I believe non rewind devices (e.g.: /dev/rmt/1n) should be used.
 
  


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