Charles Curley wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:17:12PM +0300, Dovydas Kulvinskas wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Any ideas, how to make HP Colorado backup tape apend data or to create
> > new volumes?
>
> Well, you didn't say anything about what software you are using or which
> Colorado tape drive you are using. So I'll guess you are using tar and mt.
>
> Any tape drive has two devices, one for rewind, one non-rewind. The
> rewind device automatically rewinds the tape after a read or write, so
> positioning the device at the beginning of the tape again, ready for some
> other action on the volume just written. To write several volumes to a
> tape, use the non-rewind device.
>
> For example: the rewind device for my travan drive is /dev/st1, and the no
> rewind device is the same file name witn an n prefixed, like so:
> /dev/nst1.
Sorry:
I'm using HP Colorado 8GB internal ide tape device.
lsmod (ide-tape 18848 0 (autoclean))
It uses /dev/ht0 & /dev/nht0
I know, that the first time i should use it:
tar cvf /dev/ht0 /home/dir1
all other times:
tar cvf /dev/nht0 /home/dir2
tar cvf /dev/nht0 /home/dir1 ???
No, how to restore data? IF i'm using:
tar tf /dev/nht0 > I'm always geting result dir2 listing
if i use:
mt -f /dev/ht0 fsf 1(2)
and again:
tar tf /dev/nht0 > I'm always geting result dir2 listing
Where i'm wrong? I also tried "mt -f /dev/ht0 eof, same results
Dovydas
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