[CentOS] HP Autoloader

Fri Jan 18 09:59:56 UTC 2008
Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net>

>
> I need to backup data to an HP autoloader, it needs to be *full* 
> backups each time so using Amanda doesn’t make sense.
>
> Can someone point me to what utilities to use to access the 
> autoloader, I would rather read up on this myself as my knowledge here 
> is very weak. I am moving this unit from a windows environment running 
> Backup Exec. I know all of those features won’t be available but I was 
> hoping to control in some predictable manner what tapes are used in 
> what order to effectively partition the loader.
>


i would still use amanda for this - that was she can look after the tape 
order etc and she can control mtx to use the robot.

in the amanda.conf just have the number of tapes set to 1 so that she 
knows each night has to be a complete level0 or in your disk list state 
level0 every time.