I have several RHEL 4.5, 4.6 & 5.0 boxes which I've tried insf mknod & cat "- - -" > /proc/sys/.../scan/... device file to try to detect the tape drive but no joy (as doing tar to /dev/st0 or st1 or st2 doesn't result in the DAT72's LED light to blink; I've tried setting the SCSI id of the DAT72 SCSI drive to 1 & 2) I'm moving DC. What is the safest 'bare metal backup' to a DAT72 tape that I can take in the event both the Linux servers' boot disks got damaged (it ever occurred in one past DC move I've been thru before) during the move so that I can recover without reinstalling Redhat? Can I use "dd" & is the syntax below Ok: ' dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/st0 bs=64k conv=notrunc ' In the event both boot disks are damaged during transit, can I just boot up from RHEL 4.x / 5.0 CD/DVD & then issue: 'dd if=/dev/st0 of=/dev/sda bs=64k conv=notrunc' Or is there any way to create a bootable DDS3 tapes (yes, I would like to read/write DDS3 media on HP Storageworks DAT72 drive, would this work?) If there's drivers that need to be installed, kindly point me to the exact urls/links to download for this HP Storageworks DAT72 for RHEL 4.5/4.6/5.0 Tks Sun -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
