Naeem Shah wrote: >Hi Randy, > >Thanks a lot for your help. That is highly appreciated and it solved my >problem after I created a symbolic link /dev/tape to the device file st0. > >I have couple of more questions regarding this. > >1. Will it support multiple tape cartridges (in most cases, yes, but still I >have some doubts). Multiple cartridges means when one tape will get filled, >tar should ask for a new tape and so forth. > I think it will, but I am not positive. I am using SGI's XFS filesystem, and I use xfsdump/xfsrestore to backup to tape.
> >2. I want to take backup not from root. I want to use my oracle user for the >backup. But I am getting permission denied. What could be the way to permit >my oracle user in order to take oracle backups. > Try doing a groupadd and add a group called tape, then do a usermod on your oracle user to add the user to the group tape. # groupadd tape If the username is oracle, and he is in the group oracle: # usermod -g oracle -G tape oracle Then 'cd /dev' and 'chown root.tape st0*' and 'chown root.tape nst0*'. _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
