At 12:34 PM 12/8/1998 -0500, tim hibbard wrote:
> I have RedHat 5.1, and a HP scsi SureStore 6000. I want to be able to do
>multiple backups on one tape. Here is what I have tried to date, and if
>someonecould point out my errors
>
>mt -f /dev/st0 rewind #Rewind the tape to beg
>bru -cvf /dev/st0 /root #Backup Root Partion
>mt -f /dev/st0 fsf 1 #This should position me at the next marker?
>bru -cvf /dev/st0 /etc #back up /etc
>
>I did this on multiple sub dirs, just as a test. But when I try to
>reposition the tab, mt -f /dev/st0 fsf 2, I get an input / output error
>
>
>Any suggestions would be appreciated
>
>Tim Hibbard
>
Try using /dev/nst0 instead of /dev/st0. I think you may be overwriting
the first backup with the second, so when you try and move to the second
file, the drive cann't find it... I guess this is why XBru only works
with non-rewinding devices. (If I understand things correctly, /dev/st?
will do a rewind after doing a file read or write, and /dev/nst0 does not.)
Mikkel
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