Tape Drive

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

Thanks guys - still don't know what drive it is but I installed 
Taper and it can controll the tape so I guess it doesn't matter 
exactly.

Thanks,

Brad

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:

> karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> >>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?
> > 
> > 
> > It's probably st0. It might be sct, but I only see st0, etc. in /dev of my
> > RH9 system. On some SVR4 Unixes, the drive names are so convoluted it's
> > almost impossible to figure out. One sure method I've used to find a
> > device name is to unplug it, reboot and see what's missing from /dev or
> > what comes back on reboot after plugging it back in. Yes, I'm a bit
> > anal...
> > 
> > Of course, the easier way is to insert a tape, then do:
> > 
> > find /boot -print |cpio -ovcdumB > /dev/st0
> > 
> > and see if the light on the tape drive flashes, flickers or whatever it does.
> 
> You can also check the output of "dmesg" and see what the system saw it
> as.  On occasion, they're also known as "/dev/mt0".
> 
> > 
> > Karl
> > 
> > 
> >>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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