[olug] ide tape backup: tar, baby

[Dave Burchell]

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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