On Thu, 17 May 2001, James "Jim" Hatridge wrote:
> HI Tom et al...
>
> On Wednesday 16 May 2001 18:29, Tom Beer wrote:
> > do you have mounted the tape?
"mounted".?
> .............................
> PPenguin:~ # mount /tape
> mount: /dev/tape is not a block device
> Penguin:~ #
That sounds correct, i belive one does not mount a "tape" drive, one simply
uses tar to create an archive on it.
> Any ideas?
Try;
tar czf /dev/st0 example.tar.gz /path/to/example/dir/
>
> Thanks
>
> JIM
>
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