Re: backing up a linux native partition with debian

[brent harding <bharding greenbaynet com>]

Wow, I heard someone say you can just copy /dev/hda2 to it, what ever port
it's on, and it backs up the whole partition, but that won't allow it to
use multiple tapes, is it something the kernel has to support, or do you
just send to the parallel port and it works? I was wondering if it'd be
worth while getting a scsi card and putting it in so I could get a scsi
tape drive that is supported, I don't want to spend 800 dollars on 100 mb
zip disks to back up a 4 gig partition.
At 09:32 PM 6/18/00 -0700, you wrote:
>brent harding wrote:
>
>> >Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:32:07 -0500
>> >To: blinux-newbie egroups com
>> >From: brent harding <bharding greenbaynet com>
>> >Subject: backing up a linux native partition with debian
>> >
>> >Are tape drives that hook to the parallel port supported by debian?  If
>> so, how can I back up to it? I havea usb cd-writer, can almost guarantee
>> it's not supported, but I have an old tape drive sitting around that hooks
>> to the printer port. How would I get linux to format it and stuff? Will I
>> be able to use it as if it was another drive?
>> >
>
>Your best bet on getting current information on weather your tape drive will
>work is in the kernel source
>"/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ftape.txt " and the ftape howto .
>
>Scott
>
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