Pedro Gonzalez wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if it possible to automatically put a DAT tape back
> online without having to manually take the tape out and push back into
> the drive.  We are a lights out environment and on the weekends we need
> to do two backups, ideally we would backup Friday night and if there were
> no problems on the weekend we would reuse the same tapes and backup again
> on Sunday night.

If you have MPEX, checkout the DEVCONTROL command.  Otherwise, I seem to
remember a utility written by Stan Sieler to do the same thing is available on
Stan's web site <http://www.allegro.com/>.

John Pearce <[log in to unmask]>