tape

Billy Davis bdavis at cds-corp.com
Thu Sep 11 20:29:10 UTC 2008



ammad shah wrote:
> Dear all,
>  
> i am trying to backup on tape drive (lto3), but when i save it , it always overwrite on previous files. even though i am writing every time a new file. 
>  
> #tar -cvf /dev/st0  backup-01-09.tar.gz
> #tar -tvf /dev/st0
> backup-01-09.tar.gz
> #tar -czvf /dev/st0 backup-02-09.tar.gz
> #tar -tvf /dev/st0
> backup-02-09.tar.gz
>  
> Why ? 
>  
> and how do i know space left on tape drive before backup.  i am using single cartridge IBM LTO 3 tape drive.
>  
> thanks.
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Use device /dev/nst0 instead of /dev/st0.  It is the same tape drive, 
but the 'n' means 'no rewind' between files.




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