By default, SCO ARCserve/Open locks all of the
SCSI tape devices attached to your system. Because of this,
your tape devices are unavailable for use by backup commands such as
tar(1)
or
cpio(1),
even if the devices are not currently being used for backup
or restore operations by SCO ARCserve/Open.
Depending on the number of tape devices available on your
system, there are two possible workarounds to this situation.
If your system contains a single SCSI tape drive,
you can temporarily unlock the device by running astop
to shut down the SCO ARCserve/Open backend.
When you are finished using the tape drive, restart SCO
ARCserve/Open by running astart.
If your system contains multiple tape drives, you can
unlock one or more individual devices by editing
the /usr/lib/ARCserve/tapesvr.cfg
file and commenting out the desired devices in the
Device Table section. Specific instructions on how to make
these changes are documented within the tapesvr.cfg
file.
NOTE:
Any tape devices that are commented out of the tapesvr.cfg
file are unavailable to SCO ARCserve/Open.
You should only use this approach if you do not mind dedicating
a tape device to non-SCO ARCserve/Open uses.