ok...now you've really got my curiosity peeked. once you get the files
on the tape, how in the world does one browse, find, and then get the
Well, tar will do it for you:
tar xvf /dev/st0 filespec
filespec can be a wildcard selection, or a directory name, just like
extracting files from a
dfox wrote:
I assume /dev/nst0 is used if you just want to append extra
Well, it's used in conjunction with 'mt' to position the tape to
the proper point. One can have index marks (they work like the
ones on VCRs) so if I am at beginning of tape and want to fast forward
to right after
The one I got is mt-st-0.6-3mdk.i586.rpm
which seems to be the most recent stable version
Should work fine.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Try flexbackup
MS
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 00:02, dfox wrote:
My problem is that I have no idea how to use the tape drive.
Could someone give me some pointers please.
I think there's a Tape howto over in the howto docs, but once you
have the tape working, it's pretty easy to use - you
Well guys I understand a lot more about tape drives
now than I did 3 days ago.
A pity more of the people who think MS means computing
don't see how much more there is to it than re-installing
screwed up DLL's, VXD's etc.
I feel sure the great slew of ideas from just this one thread
would open
Try flexbackup
MS
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 00:02, dfox wrote:
My problem is that I have no idea how to use the tape drive.
Could someone give me some pointers please.
I think there's a Tape howto over in the howto docs, but once you
have the tape working, it's pretty easy to use - you
Try flexbackup
MS
Try trimming your posts
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dfox wrote:
I think there's a Tape howto over in the howto docs, but once you
have the tape working, it's pretty easy to use - you just use the
/dev/st0 (it is scsi, right?) or /dev/nst0 devises - the second is
the no-rewind device.
Is it worth playing with?
Do yuo like to make
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Norman wrote:
tar cvf /dev/st0 /home/norman
did a backup of my home directory.
I thought I would need some software to rewind the tape
not realising that this would happen automatically after
the above command completed.
I assume /dev/nst0 is used if you just
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Norman wrote:
tar cvf /dev/st0 /home/norman
did a backup of my home directory.
I thought I would need some software to rewind the tape
not realising that this would happen automatically after
the above command completed.
I assume /dev/nst0 is used if you just
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote:
ok...now you've really got my curiosity peeked. once you get the files
on the tape, how in the world does one browse, find, and then get the
file(s) off the tape? I've never done this before, but am truely
facinated
by this.
Simple.
If you
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:43 pm, you wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote:
ok...now you've really got my curiosity peeked. once you get the files
on the tape, how in the world does one browse, find, and then get the
file(s) off the tape? I've never done this before, but am
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote:
ok...now you've really got my curiosity peeked. once you get the files
on the tape, how in the world does one browse, find, and then get the
file(s) off the tape? I've never done this before, but am
that you have a puncuation problem?
try
tar -xvf /dev/st0/home/mdw1982/.mc/ini home/mdw1982/.mc/ini
heck I Know squat about tar... I bet I am way wrong
I don't think that will work. If you did that, tar would be looking for a
file:
/dev/st0/home/
And that wouldn't exist. He
Thanks...that did the trick. Now all I've got to do is figure out just how
to erase the tape before backing up to it. Or, does that happen
automagically when tar begins to write to the device?
No worries!
Tar will blindly write over anything that's already on the tape. So you
don't need to
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, et wrote:
Ric,
thank you SO much for that awesome information. I can now see what is on
the tape now by writing the contents to a file. however when I attempt to
extract a specific file from the tape is tells me that the listed file is
not found in the archive.
And that wouldn't exist. He just needed to drop the leading / off the
filespec.
Fundamentally, one would not try to tar to /dev/st0/home/whatever.
The tape doesn't have a filesystem. to the OP - just use /dev/st0. You
aren't going to be able to access the tape as a disk, so don't try to
do so:
If you start running tight on space on that tape, remember to add the z
flag when you create, and read the tape. Then it will compress the data.
Depending on what the data is, it can recover a lot of space.
I'm not a big fan of using compression on the tapes, and I really haven't
tried it.
Thanks...that did the trick. Now all I've got to do is figure out just how
to erase the tape before backing up to it. Or, does that happen
automagically when tar begins to write to the device?
You don't have to. It's done by the tape hardware itself, just like a
regular audio/video tape.
try
tar -xvf /dev/st0/home/mdw1982/.mc/ini home/mdw1982/.mc/ini
heck I Know squat about tar... I bet I am way wrong
That won't work, sorry. Tapes don't have filesystems, and if you just
want to back up starting from /home/mdw* just do:
tar -cvf /dev/st0 /home/md*
If you look at the output
Try dropping the leading slash from the filespec:
tar -xvf /dev/st0 home/mdwwhatever/somefile
Just watch where you're sitting when you do that. I think if you check the
listing you made with 'tar -tvf', you'll notice the leading slash is not
Ric - good advise. Just remember the
To get those off:
tar -zxvf /dev/st0 filespec
The z in tar will compress/uncompress them on the fly. There are far
better utilities for doing backups than tar. But in a pinch, it works. Let's
That's one aspect where the commercial backup systems should fare better
than plain 'tar' --
My problem is that I have no idea how to use the tape drive.
Could someone give me some pointers please.
I think there's a Tape howto over in the howto docs, but once you
have the tape working, it's pretty easy to use - you just use the
/dev/st0 (it is scsi, right?) or /dev/nst0 devises -
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