Re: [Fwd: IDE tape drive]
On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 22:04, greg wrote:
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: IDE tape drive
> Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:49:01 -0700 (PDT)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 04:46:54 +0200
> From: Martin F Krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
> To: debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
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> hi guys,
> i have a machine with an IDE tape drive, 20Gb in size or so. my kernel
> has the ide-tape.o module, and /dev/ht0 exists. the logs are fine, in
> short... i think the tape drive just might work.
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> however, i have no clue how to use it. could someone give me a primer?
> i looked online but couldn't find a nice linux & tapes primer.
>
> what software do i need?
> how can i format a tape? do i need to?
> how do i store onto tape?
> how can i read from tape?
Try dump for filesystem backups and tar for general usage. Learn mt to
get your tapes physically ready (ie eod or eject them etc). Dump has a
pretty good manpage. Tar is just a matter of pointing the -f option at
the tape drive. Mt has a good manpage as well.
--mike
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