Tape Drive

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

>
> 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.

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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