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AMMT
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Index NAME
ammt - Amanda version of mt
SYNOPSIS
ammt[
-d][
-f|-tdevice]
command[
count]
DESCRIPTION
Ammtprovides just enough of the standard
mtcommand for the needs of Amanda.This is handy when doing a full restore and the standard
mtprogram has not yet been found.
Ammtalso provides access to the Amanda output drivers that supportvarious tape simulations.
See theamanda(8)man page for more details about Amanda.See theOUTPUT DRIVERSsection ofamanda(8)for more information on the Amanda output drivers.
OPTIONS
- -d
- Turn on debugging output.
- -f device
- Access tape devicedevice.If not specified, theTAPEenvironment 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
- Writecount(default: 1)end of file marks (tapemarks).
- fsf count
- Skip forwardcount(default: 1)files.
- bsf count
- Skip backwardcount(default: 1)files.
- asf count
- Position to file numbercount(default: 0)where zero is beginning of tape.This is the same as arewindfollowed by afsfcount.
- 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 <mengelAATTfnal.gov>
John R. Jackson <jrjAATTpurdue.edu>
SEE ALSO
amanda(8)
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
- COMMANDS
- AUTHOR
- SEE ALSO
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