Bruce McCoy wrote:
>
> Has anyone used ftape with a scsi exabyte 8200 internal 8mm
> tape drive on a RH5.2 (2.0.36) system?
> If so, which unstable version of ftape are you using?
> Thanks,
> Bruce <:)
>
Hi Bruce,
The Exabyte 8200 is a SCSI tape drive. The ftape drivers are only for
floppy, or parallel port-based floppy, drives.
To use the Exabyte 8200, you will use the /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0
devices. An example tar command would be:
tar -cvf /dev/st0 /home
This will backup everything in /home to the tape drive. For more
specific info on tar, take a look at the tar man page.
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