iware <dkwok@iware.com.au> wrote:
> Are they any other tools I can use to manipulate the tape drive?

I never needed another one for DDS2 and DDS3 drives.

> I need to know how much tape is left (Mbyte or length) ...

I'm not sure if DAT tapes are actually able to deliver that information.

> ... and go to a particular backup file.

You can do that with "mt fsf <n>" where "n" is the number of backups
you want to skip.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/