Oracle

[Serge Dubrouski]

I'm afraid tapes don't have block device files at all because they are
character (data is read sequentially byte by byte) devices by
definition of a tape. There is no way to mount a tape like a hard
drive.

On 1/2/07, Larry D Sorensen <larry.sorensen at juno.com> wrote:
> That sounds logical, but /dev/st0 is not a block device. 'mount' is
> looking for a block device to mount.
>
> On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:33:38 -0600 Robert Canary <rwcanary at ocdirect.net>
> writes:
> > I guess you would mount it the same way you would any other device
> >
> >  > mount -t <fstype> </dev/xxx> <mount directory>
> >
> > Larry D Sorensen wrote:
> >
> > > I know that this is not the forum for Oracle, but I have a simple
> > > question. I am fairly new to Oracle. I am told that to do a tape
> > backup
> > > of a database, I have to mount a tape drive. I have never had to
> > mount a
> > > tape drive before. What is involved in mounting a tape drive for
> > use by
> > > Oracle backup (rman)?
> > >
> > > Larry
> > >
> >
> >
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