Tape backup using tar

[James Kosin]

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Stuart Bailey wrote:

|>It would also help us if you sent a sample of the command you used to
|>start tar to do the backup.  Usually with tar you need to specify the
|>-f /dev/nst0 or simular to backup to the drive.  You do have to
|>replace the /dev/nst0 with the device name for your tape drive.
|
|Sorry, I'm using:
|tar -cvf /dev/st0 <files list>
|
|However, after the previous response, I have noticed that /dev/st0
was an
|ordinary file, not a device file.
|I'm now trying to work out what it should be - I think mknod /dev/st0
c 9 0
|should do it.
|
|It's odd how this has changed - it was working fine before the update.
|
|Many thanks,
|
|Stuart.
|
First, check your dmesg log for the device being used for the tape
drive?  I'm thinking maybe they don't have a SCSI tape driver being
loaded to create the device.
Do a lsmod and look for the st module.

Let us know,
James Kosin
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