Ammt

Name

ammt — AMANDA version of mt

Synopsis

ammt [-d ] [ -f | -t | device ] command [count]

DESCRIPTION

Ammt provides just enough of the standard UNIX mt command for the needs of AMANDA. This is handy when doing a full restore and the standard mt program has not yet been found.

Ammt also provides access to the AMANDA output drivers that support various tape simulations.

See the amanda(8) man page for more details about AMANDA. See the OUTPUT DRIVERS section of amanda(8) for more information on the AMANDA output drivers.

OPTIONS

-d

   Turn on debugging output.

-f device

   Access tape device device. If not specified, the TAPE environment variable is used.

-t device

   Same as -f.

command count

   Which command to issue, and an optional count of operations.

COMMANDS

Each command may be abbreviated to whatever length makes it unique.

eof|weof count

   Write count (default: 1) end of file marks (tapemarks).

fsf count

   Skip forward count (default: 1) files.

bsf count

   Skip backward count (default: 1) files.

asf count

   Position to file number count (default: 0) where zero is beginning of tape. This is the same as a rewind followed by a fsf count.

rewind

   Rewind to beginning of tape.

offline|rewoffl

   Rewind to beginning of tape and unload the tape from the drive.

status

   Report status information about the drive. Which data reported, and what it means, depends on the underlying operating system, and may include:

   ONLINE     Indicates the drive is online and ready.
   OFFLINE    Indicates the drive is offline or not ready.
   BOT        Indicates the drive is at beginning of tape.
   EOT        Indicates the drive is at end of tape.
   PROTECTED  Indicates the tape is write protected.
   ds         Device status.
   er         Error register.
   fileno     Current tape file number.
   blkno      Current tape block number file.

Note Many systems only report good data when a tape is in the drive and ready.

AUTHOR

Marc Mengel <[email protected]>, John R. Jackson <[email protected]>: Original text

Stefan G. Weichinger, <[email protected]>, maintainer of the AMANDA-documentation: XML-conversion

SEE ALSO

amanda(8)