Re: VOLHDR or something

Yep, part of my backupscript reads label before making a dump. I suppose you can read 
the following parts of my star dumpscript

newlabel="`hostname -f`:`date +%Y%m%d-%H:%M`"
star -c  ... VOLHDR="${newlabel}" ... other options ...

# bs=x is dependend of device, some devices support
# only big blocksizes (8k, 16k and more)
# Some experimenting is neccessary
# Read tape label
oldlabel=`${dd} if=${dev} bs=${blocksize} count=1 2>>${err} | \
    gawk -F'"' 'NR==1 {print $2}' 2>>${err}`

something  like this.

> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to mark tapes somehow? I would like to name tapes and than 
> before I do backup, I will read tape name, than do backup and write tape 
> name in log.
> Can VOLHDR function be used somehow for this purpose?
> 
> Zoran 
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