Hi
Since you are using HP tape drive , you could use the software
provided by HP
it works fine without any prob. It has also got the an neat menu system from
which you could
schedule your backups etc.
Rgds
Ramsey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chandrakumar Muthaiah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: [LIH] HP Tape Drive
>
> Yashpal Nagar wrote:
>
> >Hi Chandra,
> >Finally i downloaded dc395 scsi adapter from terram's site and rebuild
the kernel. Now it is working..
> >when i insmod these are the /var/log/messages
> >
> >@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> >Oct 2 23:38:08 backup kernel: DC395x (TRM-S1040): 1 adapters found
> >Oct 2 23:38:08 backup kernel: scsi0 : Tekram DC395U/UW/F DC315/U V1.32,
2000-12-02
> >Oct 2 23:38:10 backup kernel: Vendor: HP Model: C5683A
Rev: C005
> >Oct 2 23:38:10 backup kernel: Type: Sequential-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> >@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> >Now can you discuss something about tape formatting, what kind of tool do
you use to take backup on tape, can i use a fresh tape as it is ? i have
zero experience with these tape backups. :)
> >
> >
> In short I use amanda for my purpose at my place.
>
> I would say it should be possible to use any of these tools, tar, cpio,
> dump/restore.
>
> for tar it just easy say
>
> tar cjf /dev/st0 /home/dump/backup
>
> it should write everything from /home/dump/backup directory to tape to
> extract
>
> (cd /home/dump/restore; tar xjf /dev/st0 )
>
> it should untar evewrything from tape
>
> it is that easy.
>
>
>
>
>
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