>>>>> "cdb" == Carl D Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
cdb> Whoa, whoa, whoa. Before you guys get too carried away, how do you know
cdb> that nothing has been written on the tape? /dev/st0 will automatically
cdb> rewind after access is completed so everytime you complete writing to
cdb> the device the tape will rewind to the beginning and it will look like
cdb> the tape hasn't moved. Try to untar from the tape to a temporary
cdb> directory and see if there is anything there or simply cat from the tape
cdb> to a tar file, or do a 'tar tvf /dev/st0' and see if there is a table of
cdb> contents on the tape.
cdb> If it's really important that the tape not rewind after writing to it
cdb> then use device /dev/nst0 instead of /dev/st0. Do a 'man st' for more
cdb> information about SCSI tape devices.
cdb> Hope this helps.
q
I should have suggested that myself, I was only assuming that he knew
it didn't write to the tape or move the tape by what he had said:
/quote
Thank you for your advice but the tape is still not working.
When I try to back up /etc to tape. It seems the process has been finish
from sever screen. but when I pull out the tape, I found that the tape
still in original staus, it did not wind.
quote/
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