AppleUni Author wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm happy to say that the tape deck in the external case is recognized
> > by the ftape drivers when attached to the floppy interface!
> >
> > You might add this info to your readme or a faq:
> >
> > If you have an HP T1000e parallel tape drive, and the performance is
> > just not there, or your wondering why you spent the extra money for an
> > external drive that you never take any where, it takes ten minutes to
> > dismantle the T1000e, and make it a T100.
> >
> > To open the T1000e case, the gray strip on the right side needs to be
> > slid forward about a quarter inch. I \/
> !FREE! At your favorite FTP site!
>
Okay mister High and Mighty... When did you ever pay for anything you
acquired from an ftp site?
Answer a question with a real answer:
I've decided that 'tob' looks like a good script to manage backups.
I've configured things as directed in the documentation. I've specified
/dev/ftape, and created a small test.selectdir file, for a 10mb backup.
Every thing should run smoothly.
Whether running the tob script or using afio from the command line, it
does not understand that "/dev/ftape" is the archive destination. It
reports that /dev/ftape is an invalid argument.
I can make the tape do flips and jump through hoops using mt, but do not
know what afio needs.
I've looked at the man page... it reads "... | afio -o archive"
I presume that 'archive' should be replace with the destination file or
device, so one could do
'ls | afio -o /dev/ftape' for a quick test.
TiA,
Perry
