Hi,
Does anyone here use a tape drive for backup?
I am using Mandrake 9.0. I see there is a program called 'kdat' that
looks like it should simplify backup. However it says 'no tape'. So
I guess I need to first mount the tape drive - this I do not
understand how to do.
Inspecting the /dev directory I see my tape drive under
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0 which has character devices
labelled: mt, mta, mtan, mtl, mtln, mtm, mtmn, mtn. This
seems to line up with this also: /dev/tapes/tape0 which only has
character devices st0, st0a, st0l, st0m.
But how and which of these devices do I mount? I try a few variations
on the mount command but couldn't get it to work - kept saying it
couldn't find the device. Anyone got some tips please? Should I
specify a block size? A file system? Sync or Async?
Or am I on the totally wrong tack?
Thanks,
Bryce Stenberg
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