Per thanks for the detials. It is now working under tar using /dev/ht0.
Does Tar compress files?? and can you tell it to restore filed to a
diffrent directory ??
Man tar came up as no entry avialable.
>> >Your tape drive is recognized as /dev/hdd on startup.
>> >Later on, however, it is redirected to /dev/ht0
>> >
>>
>> ok , then what ??? (see below)
>>
>
> [stuff deleted]
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>I only use the 'tar' commmand. I am not familar with
>'taper' or other backup software packages.
>
>The following should work. You probably have to be loged in as root
>to do this:
>
> WRITING FILES TO TAPE: tar -cvf /dev/ht0 "top-directory"
>
> This will copy every file in every subdirectory
> to "top-directory" to your tape.
>
> CHECKING FILES ON A TAPE ARCHIVE: tar -tvf /dev/ht0
>
> EXTRACTING A TAPE ARCHIVE TO YOUR DISK: tar -xvf /dev/ht0
>
>If the tape drive does not work with the tar command, the problem
>might be that IDE-TAPE support has not been compiled into the
>kernel.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Per
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