Limited exp with tape drives here, but.... Wouldn't the drive simply appear as another device (/dev/sda1 maybe? - dmesg will tell you for sure). If that's the case wouldn't a command something like this work:
tar cvf /dev/sda1 /home/myfiles/* Note the destination file argument is the tape device - change this as needed... There's lots of help online for tar and tape drives. I got the above from this page: http://www.hsrl.rutgers.edu/ug/tape.html HTH Shawn Martin Glazer wrote: > Hi All, > > I'mlooking to use an external USB tape backup unit on one of my Linux > servers - in particular a HP Storageworks DAT 72 External USB Tape Drive. > > Has anyone had any experience with using a USB tape drive under Liux? > Anything > I should be aware of? > > Thanks > > Martin _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
