Dell RD1000 Catridges / Backup Tapes

[Gerrard Geldenhuis]

Hi John,
It is probably a good idea to do the mount manually for a backup. You
should rely on a little as possible when doing backups. If you expect
everything to go wrong then you more likely to know if something did not
work.

If you want to fix the "workaround" I suspect automount is the culprit
and it might be a good idea to read up on it.

Regards

> 
> Say I insert the Monday Cartridge - it automatically mounts as /rd1000
> 
> then if i eject the Cartridge and put the Wednesday cartridge in, it
is
> visible as /dev/sdb but does not use the assigned mount point of
/rd1000
> 
> I have just been tinkering around with commands on the server and the
> following seemed to work
> 
> #insert cartridge
> mount /dev/sdb1 /rd1000
> #check cartridge
> cd /rd1000
> ls {which lists the file system ok!}
> 
> I can then write information to the tape
> 
> to eject the cartridge i have to
> 
> #unmount cartridge
> umount -f /rd1000
> #eject catridge
> eject /dev/sdb
>