[olug] ide tape backup: tar, baby

[J Randall Wilson]

Dave

yes   mt -f /dev/ht0 retension   command not found

Randy


On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Dave Burchell wrote:

> Have you tried "mt"?  Specifically, something like
>
> 	mt -f /dev/mytape retension
>
> (Don't take the "/dev/mytape" literally; you might need "/dev/ht0".)
>
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 08:09:44PM -0500, J Randall Wilson wrote:
> > Mat
> >
> > My mistake.  Tar indeed is a solution.  However, I was thinking terms
> > of some driver level functions, such as retensioning, rewind, etc.
> > I read linux/devices/ide/ide-tape.c several times and am a bit
> > befuddled.  My tape is a Seagate Travan tape drive (TapeStor).  There
> > is a SCO driver available, 'something.exe', which could be ported.
> >
> > Further exploration shows a difference in files which may be due to not
> > retensioning as per seagate instructions.  That is, the files produced by
> > tar xf /dev/ht0 differ from the original.
> >
> > Randy
>
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