L20 DLT robot, command line ?

[Dirk Moolman]

Hi, I just want to know if there is an easy way to adres my L20 tape robot
from the command line ?

I want to write my own simple little scripts, that will load & unload tapes,
without having to use complicated software like Netbackup, etc.
I do not have any training in Netbackup, and want to keep things simple &
easy.


Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

Dirk

[Dirk Moolman]

<Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net>> wrote in message
news:news-E084BD.03012428072003@news.tdl.com...

> In article <3f24dff6$0$237@hades.is.co.za>,
> "Dirk Moolman" <dirkm@mxgroup.co.za> wrote:
>

> > Hi, I just want to know if there is an easy way to adres my L20 tape

robot

> > from the command line ?
> >
> > I want to write my own simple little scripts, that will load & unload

tapes,

> > without having to use complicated software like Netbackup, etc.
> > I do not have any training in Netbackup, and want to keep things simple

&

> > easy.

>
> There is a free program/driver written by Eric Berggren called STCTL.
> Here's a blurb from the STCTL web page:
>
> STCTL - SCSI Tape Changer Controller
>
> STCTL is a complete package for providing control over common
> SCSI-based tape/media random access libraries and changers
> under the Sun Solaris2 operating system. Included in the
> package is a SCSI target-driver loadable kernel module,
> a command-line utility to issue commands to the changer, and
> an interface wrapper script to plug directly into UMD's AMANDA
> backup system. The package also includes full source code
> and is freely available and distributable.
>
> For more information about STCTL check out it's web page:
> [url]http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~eric/stctl/[/url]
>
> MTX - TAPE CHANGER
>
> MTX- Tape changer and tape library control program. Now includes
> features for controlling mid to large sized tape libraries.
>
> [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx/[/url]
>
> For more information about AMANDA look here:
> [url]http://www.amanda.org/[/url]
>
> --
> DeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee...
>
>
>

Thanks Michael ! I will look into this. I also saw the 1st one (STCTL) on
the web this morning.

There is another one (JB Driver) at [url]www.everstor.com[/url] which I am also looking
at.

Regards
Dirk