Here’s a little script I whipped up in perl to sequentially load and erase all the tapes in an auto loader. Hopefully it is of some use to others.
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wipe_tapes.pl
Thursday, June 21st, 2007Permanent Device Nodes with udev
Thursday, June 21st, 2007I recently converted from Arkeia (a horribly overpriced and buggy piece of software) to Bacula (a free, stable, higher performance alternative). At the same time I upgraded my backup server to Debian Etch and started having a problem where my tape library would alternatively show up as either /dev/sg0 or /dev/sg2 depending on what order things were powered up. Obviously that presents a problem if certain pieces of software expect your auto changer to located at a certain device node in /dev.
This can be fixed by making a custom udev rule…
It’s Alive…
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Well here it is. I’ve finally converted to the dark side.
Ill be moving content over from the old site Real Soon Now(tm).