Hello Randy, I finished a test backup which needed more than one tape but unfortunately tar exited with an error and did not ask for a second tape to insert in order to continue the backup till its completion.
The error message is similare to: tar: /dev/tape: wrote only 0 of 1024 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now And the tar is back to the prompt. Have any idea about this new situation. (my doubts cam true,,,unfortunately). Naeem ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Kelsoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:30 AM Subject: Re: how to install a tape drive on a system with a pre-installed redhat 7.1 > 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 > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
