On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Hrd_to_Hndle wrote:
> I loaded the Kdat (KDE tape backup) utility on the system, however it fails
> to mount the tape drive, and the error reports that the tape is not in the
> drive.
Assuming you have only one SCSI tape device in your system, the device file
will be /dev/st0 for the auto-rewinding device, and /dev/nst0 for the
non-rewinding device. Linux enumerates SCSI devices sequentially, rather then
basing their device file on the absolute address of the device.
Recommend making a symlink from /dev/nst0 to /dev/tape, i.e., as root, issue
these commands:
cd /dev
ln -sf nst0 tape
Once you do that, issue the command
mt status
Hopefully you will get a good result back. Then give kdat a shot.
> I also made an attempt at putting an entry into the fstab file with the
> above different drivers with no luck.
Tape drives don't go in /etc/fstab. Tape drives don't use conventional
filesystems as we think of them; their sequential nature makes this
impractical. The "filesystem" written to a tape will usually simply be a tar
archive or something similar. (Indeed, "tar" stands for "tape archive".)
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