NAME¶

vtltape - user space daemon to handle SCSI SSC commands for Virtual Tape Library.

SYNOPSIS¶

vtltape -h -- print a help message and exit, or
vtltape [OPTIONS] -q QUEUE_ID -- Emulate a tape drive for queue QUEUE_ID.

DESCRIPTION¶

This command emulates a tape device, using queue QUEUE_ID, which represent the message queue number used for this daemon. This number is derived from the device.conf where it must be unique. Media files can be created using mktape(1).

OPTIONS are from:

-d

Enable debug logging (to stdout). Do not background the process, and set verbosity to level 9.

-v[N]

Enable verbose logging (to syslog) at level N (default 1).

-fFIFO

Near real time device state information will be available for external utilities by reading from this fifo. This switch has a higher precedence than the 'fifo:' entry in device.conf .

AUTHOR¶

Written by Mark Harvey

BUGS¶

Does not implement the complete SCSI SSC-3 command set.

REPORTING BUGS¶

Report bugs to <markh794@gmail.com> <mark.harvey@nutanix.com>.

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO¶

library_contents(5), make_vtl_media(1), mktape(1), vtlcmd(1), vtllibrary(1)