On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 22:04, greg wrote: > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: IDE tape drive > Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:49:01 -0700 (PDT) > Resent-From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 04:46:54 +0200 > From: Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian users <[email protected]> > > 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. > > 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
