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Chapter 7: Testing the driver

This chapter describes some basic tests for the ftape driver. The last three sections (see ftape Debugging Messages, Output of the status command, Syslog example) contain some sample output that may be produced while testing the driver. The first section gives a brief description of some utilities contained in the ftape-tools package which might be useful for testing (and using) the driver. The remainder of this chapter assumes that you have the ftape-tools package installed on your system. You probably can live without the ftape-tools package if you have plenty of RAM. See Swapout. If you don't have the ftape-tools package installed on your system, then you have to replace the command name ftmt by mt in the examples given below. See Running the tests.

Ftape Tools Useful utilities for ftape.
Preparing the tests Avoiding super user privileges.
Running the tests Performing sample backups.
Other tests Other test runs.
ftape Debugging Messages ftape Debugging Messages.
Output of the status command Output of ftmt status.
Syslog example Syslog example, first tape access.

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