Tape Drive

[Rick Stevens]

brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> 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.

It's going to be /dev/stx or /dev/mtx, depending on if it's SCSI or
IDE.

And I thought you knew better than to top-post, 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>--
>>>>>>Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
>>>>>>
>>>>>>There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those that
>>>>>>understand binary and those that don't.
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>>>>
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