- Chapter 26. Virtual Tape API
+ Chapter 27. Virtual Tape API
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-Chapter 26. Virtual Tape API
+Chapter 27. Virtual Tape API
Stefan G. Weichinger
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AMANDA Core Team
<sgw@amanda.org>
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-Note
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-Refer to http://www.amanda.org/docs/vtape-api.html for the current version of
-this document.
-The upper level AMANDA code (including some of the other tape_xxx routines)
+The upper level Amanda code (including some of the other tape_xxx routines)
calls the following routines which implement a virtual tape table:
* int tape_access(filename, mode) Acts like access(2) on possibly virtual
Along with a prefix string which will identify the type. The initial vtape
layer has two types "plain" and "rait" (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Tapes)
but we hope to add a "rmt" (remote tape client), and possibly "dvd" types soon.
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+Note
+
+Refer to http://www.amanda.org/docs/vtape-api.html for the current version of
+this document.
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