Re: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups
mt is an app that will let you manipulate it. The simples is to tar to the drive. There are many apps such as Amanda and others - check /usr/portage for the backup category. From: Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/20 Mon PM 10:51:46 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups i recently accuired a DDS3 tape drive, ive never used a tape drive with linux at all. what software is out that supports tape drives and how to i access it? what would its device name be? it is a scsi drive. is there any software that is command line based but has a menu system, possibly like the old colorado backup system used to have? TIA Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 04:51, Nick Smith wrote: i recently accuired a DDS3 tape drive, ive never used a tape drive with linux at all. what software is out that supports tape drives and how to i access it? tar -cf /dev/st0 writes to tape tar -xf /drv/st0 reads from tape mt and mtx for reeling and other fun. what would its device name be? st0, nst0 and so on. use google. it is a scsi drive. of course. Are there any atapi tape drives? is there any software that is command line based but has a menu system, possibly like the old colorado backup system used to have? why a menu? a menu is sooo superflous. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
