On Tuesday 14 Jul 2009, mr_viswanadhan wrote:

> I have newly built server redhat ES 5.3. I want to configure tape
> drive( External SCSI ), and take backup in tape cartridge with redhat
> native commands.

Please read up on tar, mt commands for archiving on tape.  These are 
native GNU utilities.  dmesg will show if your scsi hba and the tape 
drive is detected by the kernel.

-- Arun Khan

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