Tape Drive

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

Thanks, so the tape drive is /dev/st0?  Searching old emails I 
found a command "mt -f /dev/st0 status" but it doesn't do what it 
was suppose todo so if it's not st0 then how do I find out where 
it is?

Thanks

Brad

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:

> > I'm running RH9 and have a tape drive in my machine.  For the
> > life of me I can't remember or find the instructions for using
> > mounting or doing anything with a tape drive.
> 
> You don't need to mount tape drives as you would other media. You redirect
> output to them. A common commandline method of backing up would be to use
> dump, tar or a find command piped to cpio.
> 
> You can man dump and tar to see that syntax. I've always used something
> like this (your mileage may vary):
> 
> find . -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0
> 
> Where '.' represents the current directory.
> 
> If you want to use this method of backing up, I can help you with
> restores, which are different depending on your backup syntax. You can use
> different path syntax, but restoring has to match.
> 
> There is a curses-based backup utility which I used on RH6.4 and 7.0, but
> can't remember it's name to save my life and searching the /usr/bin
> directory of my RH9 system has proven fruitless for the impatient person
> on my keyboard...
> 
> Have fun, but remember, disk is cheap, so I just NFS mount and do backups
> to a large disk just for this purpose on a remote machine (not real
> remote; same building, different rooms, same floor).
> 
> >
> > HELP!!!
> 
> Hope this does..?
> 
> >
> > OH, and Merry Christmas.
> 
> Same to you, but more of it. (I learned that way back in my primary school
> days; it's meant as a compliment).
> 
> Karl
> 
> >
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