[olug] ide tape backup: tar, baby

[J Randall Wilson]

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


On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Mat Caughron wrote:

> Hi there:
>
> This is so obvious I must be missing something...  what about tar?
>
> Mat
>
> P.S.  Did anyone catch the Uncle Remus allusion in the title of this
> email?
>
Only after you mention it.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, J Randall Wilson wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Does anybody know of an open source ide tape backup solution
> >
> > Randy
> >


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