you would not normaly mount a tape (thought Im sure it can be done). Do you know the command that was used to do the backup? Assuming it was tar, the command you want is
tar -xvf /dev/st0 while your current directory is some place with lots of space, perhaps an freshly made filesystem. BB on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:38:36PM +1000, Simon Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI all, > Have had a major disk crash in one of our critical systems. It has been > backing up nightly to a SCSI tape drive. > Now I want to restore that tape to another system. Old system is RH7 new > system is 7.2 > > I can't seem to get the tape drive to mount, i have tried mount /dev/st0 > /mnt/tape and various other stx devices as well as sgx devices, each time I > am told that the device is not a block device. Now I know it can be done > because it was done on the system that is currently dead, but obviously I > can't check to see what I did different. > > Any help appreciated > > _________________________________________ > > Simon Bryan > IT Manager - OLMC Parramatta > ICQ#:137562751 > http://www.olmc.nsw.edu.au > _________________________________________ > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
