Re: Re: scsi tape drive - debian package
Thanks for responding everyone !
I found a very good tar script which I want to utilise, but I think I need to take a
step back.
I think I'm missing something, everyone is mentioning, your tape device should
be /dev/tape or /dev/st0 etc..
The only things I have under /dev/ are:
/dev/
MAKEDEV ataraid cciss fd ida input printer pts rd usb
I'm not sure if it's there ? ^above.
When I issue this command, it shows the tape drive there though.
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
Vendor: DELL Model: 1x4 U2W SCSI BP Rev: 5.35
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD0 RAID5 69356R Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 09 Lun: 00
Vendor: SONY Model: SDX-300C Rev: 0400
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:466 Rev: 1.06
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Am I missing something ?
Thanks all !
--
Ross.
> Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net> wrote:
>
> <posted & mailed>
>
>
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently attached a SCSI tape drive to my raid box running
> Debian.
> > It's a SONY Model: SDX-300C
> >
> > I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction on how
> to get
> > it working, backing up.
> > I had a look at Amanda, that looked very complicated for me !
> >
> > Is there a simpler software package ?
>
> Try tar. When I first got my tape drive, I tried a lot of fancy
> graphical
> backup utilities: Perfect Backup, Arkeia, and others. But like you,
> my
> needs are simple. In the end I just wrote a shell script to call
> tar.
> It's completely adequate for my needs.
>
> Remember, the most important thing a tape drive can do is to protect
> you in
> case of catastrophe, i.e. hard disk crash. In that event, you may
> not have
> X working, you may be working in a very minimal environment after
> booting
> from a rescue disk. tar will be there for you, but will you be able
> to run
> Arkeia or Amanda?
>
> While we're on the subject, consider building a custom rescue CDROM.
> There
> are several of them out there. I followed and modified the
> instructions at
> http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~purschke/RescueCD/, with good results.
> With one
> of these you can boot your system from CD and be in a good position
> to call
> tar to get your files back.
>
> Good luck!
> Andrew.
>
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