I have done it in years, but wouldn't tar work directly?
Something of the form:
tar -cvf /dev/st files_to_save
As for operating the tape drive itself, the command "mt" is probably
what you need (to rewind, to eject the tape, to find the next record, etc)
Daniel
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Randy Chrismon wrote:
> It just happened that I have an old HP Colorado 8GB tape drive on this
> box that I installed RedHat 9 on. Red Hat recognized the device and the
> Hardware Browser shows it as /dev/st. I'd love to actually be able to
> do some backups onto this tape drive but can't find any information on
> how to access it. I'm guessing I need to mount it but can't figure out
> how to do that. Once I have access to it, I'm guessing I use something
> like tar or cpio to back data up to the tape. But I also guess that I
> have to format the tape somehow. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO that
> covers what I need to use this device?
> Thanks.
> Randy
>
>
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