Known limitations and workarounds

Tape device locking limitations

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.


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