On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> Since no one else has chimed in yet. I will give it a shot. I have
> not had to manaully do anything with my tape drive in a while other
> than change tapes. I use amanda to back up 4 machines on my network
> to a DLT drive.
>
> I would first check to see if the drive can be talked to. A quick
> simple test, I would do is use mt to see if it can talk to the
> drive.
>
> The drive should be /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 (no rewind) viewing
> /var/log/messages or dmesg should indicate it was found.
>
> Create a symlink to it from /dev/TAPE (this should be the default
> for most programs that are tape aware including mt IIRC. Might be
> there already. If not:
>
> ln -s /dev/st0 /dev/TAPE
>
> try:
>
> mt retension
>
> This shoud take the tape all the way to the end and back. Not a bad
> idea for new tapes anyway.
>
> If that worked,(drive kicked of an ran for a while) then send a
> short file to the device, or tar a directory or two and send it
> there. The thing that I had the most trouble with as I first
> started dinking with tapes is treating the device as the filename.
> Once I got that down I had few problems.
>
> try something like : (its been a while but should be close)
>
> cd /tmp
>
> tar -cv ./* >/dev/TAPE
>
> I suspect that tar -cvf /dev/TAPE ./*
>
> would work as well
>
> This creates a tarfile with the contents of /tmp and all
> subdirectories and sends it to the tape.
>
> to check it you can
>
> mkdir /tmp/tapetest
> cd /tmp/tapetest
>
> tar -xv * < /dev/TAPE
>
I like this pair of commands:
tar -cvf /dev/TAPE ~/*
tar -df /dev/TAPE ~/*
or
tar -cvf /dev/TAPE ~/*
tar -tf /dev/TAPE
The first pair archive you home directory, and then does a compair
between the tape and the disk. If you get no output, everything
matches. The second pair again archives your home directory, but
instead of doing a compare, it just lists the file names in the archive.
Or you can run the first line, and then the second lines from both...
Mikkel
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