"Argentium G. Tiger" wrote:
Well, I've managed to read just enough varying documentation to confuse myself on the issue of tape backups.
I have a SCSI drive that supports QIC-3080XLF tapes (2 gigabytes native-uncompressed). I'm a little at a loss as to how to proceed.
I've looked at ftape, zftape, the ftape settings under the kernel, but they all seem to reference the older QIC-80 style of floppy tape drive.
Anyone have SCSI tape drives and back up to/restore from them regularly that could give me a pointer to where I should start?
Well, there are the /dev/nrmt0 and /dev/mt0 devices root@marvin:/usr/share/sounds/wav > ls /dev/*mt* -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 5 20:01 /dev/nrmt0 -> nst0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 20:01 /dev/rmt0 -> st0 as we see, they are symlinks. I can access my tape with "tar cfv /dem/rmt0 [directory]" Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/