Thanks to those who answered my queries here this afternoon. The result of the disaster recovery was that i was able to get the dodgy HDD back up one more time, so used Samba to drag all the files over onto a CD using XP (sorry about that). We then installed the new 60GB HDD and am currently copying the files back again.
Initial testing indicates a complete recovery...phew! Thanks again, even though I never got the tape working, I now have a bit more breathing space to do so. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Simon Bryan > Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2002 1:39 PM > To: Slug > Subject: [SLUG] Help with backup tape > > > 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
