Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!uvm-gen!tnl!norstar
From: norstar@tnl.UUCP (Daniel Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: tape volume labelling
Keywords: vol1, archive, automated library
Message-ID: <188@tnl.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 88 03:49:40 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The Northern Lights, Burlington VT
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Hi. I've just installed an Archive 60 Meg internal tape drive in my XENIX	
386 2.2.2 system. What I'd like to do is write a tape volume label onto the
header of each tape I use. Then, when I backup the filesystem each day, the
system would read the label and reject writing to the tape if the wrong
volume was inserted. Is there any non-trivial way to do this?

Any advise is much appreciated!

norstar
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