Combining ufsdump and a tape library

Hi All,
I have a question with regards to multi-volume backups using ufsdump and a tape library. Reading through the ufsdump documentation, I see that it has an option "l" (lowercase L), which says "When the end-of-tape is reached before the dump is complete, take the drive offline and wait up to two minutes for the tape drive to be ready again ...". However, when I use this option, and ufsdump reaches the end of the tape, it does not offline the tape drive. It sits there, waiting for a response to the question "DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no")"...at no time does the tape drive go offline, which would allow me to write a script to detect the offlining of the tape, and swap it out for a fresh one.
Basically, what i'm looking for is a way to allow ufsdump to span >1 tapes without operator intervention by having a script detect when it needs new media, and ask the library to load the next tape. However, ufsdump doesn't relinquish control of the tape drive, so I can't pop out the tape unless I kill it...
Can anyone suggest a solution to automating multi-volume ufsdumps to tape?
Thanks,
-Adam Lundrigan
[email protected]

I don't think you can do this AND have a variable sized output media. You will get the restart question when it gets a tape error (which you will get if you write out too much). I think the only way you can do what you want is to conservatively figure out what would fit on a tape with compression, and giving a tape length where the length*bpi will give you that figure (ie, no errors on tape writes).
-r

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    If your Mac or PC hasn't got an audio in socket you can have a look at the Griffin iMic which connects to a USB port and comes with some software of it's own: iMic USB audio interface

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