I would use the 'dump' program to do tape backups. (Found in 'utils' section) It has a interactive tool called 'restore'. Once installed the documentation under /usr/doc for it will get you going.
Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > I just received a sony dds tape drive for our linux server and > now I would like to do backups of some data. > I have tried with tar but with little success; I can do a > tar cvf /dev/st0 /home and it seems to do the job. But I wasn't able to > recover a single file from the tape with tar xf /dev/st0 file_to_extract. > Could somebody help me with basics steps to backup? A howto > would be fine, if there is some! > Maybe there is a better way to do! Someone here? > > > []s, > Mario O.de Menezes "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but > IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" > http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]