Re: Tape Drive With Linux.

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Matthew Stanfield wrote:

> It sounds like I should be expecting more problems then. The 'new' one is
> only 8 weeks old. No wonder they offered to send me a new one so quickly,
> I'd barely mentioned the broken drive and found myself giving address
> details for a new one to be sent out.

Interesting.  My boss makes a big deal out of having to do the RMA forms
for ours, now I know they're not that difficult ;)

> I mean, of course, 'ftape' not the 'DOS' disk partitioning utility 'fdisk'.
> When doing a 'full' system backup would you just create one large tar file
> writing it directly to /dev/st0? I haven't quite got to grips with the
> Linux/Unix way of doing things yet.

tar -cvpf /dev/st0 files_directories_to_backup

is the simplest way I can think of.

Or similar programs, just telling it /dev/st0

mike

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