On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:52, 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 ---- man mt suggest using /dev/nst0 rather than /dev/st0 which causes it to rewind because these things are very imprecise things and you will never know where the tape is positioned unless it is rewound to start. Amanda is really cool but a real PIA to set up - will back up other systems. Craig -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
