You don't have to mount an IDE tape drive. As long as your system recognizes the tape drive you can just run "taper -T ide".
Ok, that worked and it recognized the tape drive. Is there any
better tape backup software for Linux?
Taper crapped out on me several times on a small backup. I tried
setting the preferences, but found it difficult at best, to ascertain
which were the default values and which were the altered values. It
does not provide a whole lot of useful information on which column
is which, ie. which are the default and which are the altered, when
you use the cursor keys to highlight a column. Hitting the left/right
cursor keys only does a screen anomaly which throws characters
out of the field, at least on _my_ system (Kde desktop, 800 x 600)
For example -
Have fast fsf - no yes
Can seek - no yes
Can fsr - no yes
After an error-ridden attempt at a backup supposedly "succeeded",
the restore module would not identify the backup as a taper archive.
Any suggestions on better tape backup software that anyone else
is using?
Regards and thanks,
Don
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