[rhn-users] Re: Backups using tar

[Greg Forte]

heh, careful!

That will rewind it ... and so will any other command given in place of 
'rewind', if you use the st# device, in general.  If you want to issue 
any command other than a rewind and NOT have it rewind immediately 
afterwards, you need to use /dev/nst#.

-g

jason.supino at convergys.com wrote:
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> mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
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> Also, can someone remind what the command is for controlling the tape
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> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:10:07 -0600 Larry D Sorensen
> <larry.sorensen at juno.com> writes:
>> Does the tar command recognize the end of a tape and ask for a
>> second
>> tape automatically, or is there something that I need to do with the
>> tar
>> command to let an archive span tapes?
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>> Larry
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