[mythtv-users] [OT] tape handling under Linux (was Re: Practicality of ...)

[Ron Johnson]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 10:00 +0100, Johannes Becker wrote:
> Mine is a 7 slot changer using a Quantum DLT IV drive. That has 20G
> uncompressed capacity.

Ah, that's what we in the DEC OpenVMS & OSF/1,DigitalUnix,Tru64
world know as the TZ-87.  Really old.  We have some TZ-89s at work
(35/70 capacity) and they still chug along.  The SuperDLTs are
really nice, though.

If you want to backup (uncompressed) a 55GB directory, does Linux
(or some userland app) know how to dismount "tape 1" and auto-load
"tape 2", then dismount it and auto-load "tape 3", so that you have
a tarball that spans 3 tapes?

And is there an app for unloading the drive, and then loading the
tape from an arbitrary slot?

>                        This is enough for what I need. But when
> someone wants to backup also the videos it may be too small, too slow.
> Videos I like to keep I put on DVDs. My server backs up itself, the
> MythTV box and two workstations.

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