Jayson, After you get the tape drive working, you will need some type of backup soluton. if you are unsure of what you are going to use, I'd say checkout Amanda http://www.amanda.org/
also you can check this out. http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 13:46, Jayson Hill wrote: > Thank you Chris, I was unsure what /dev it would be, but after reading a > bit more, and with your helpful email, I think I got it... > > I appreciate it. > > Jayson > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Chris Watt > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Jayson Hill > Subject: Re: setting up a tape drive > > At 08:39 2002/07/16 -0700, you wrote: > > >I was wondering if someone could help me with setting up a tape drive > on > >an existing RedHat 7.2 system. It is a Seagate SCSI tape drive. I am > sorry > >to be such a newbie about this, but I am completely clueless on how to > >start. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > The usual approach is: > 1. Turn machine off. > 2. Add tape drive to SCSI chain (using an available ID number and making > > sure the chain remains properly terminated). > 3. Turn machine back on. > > At this point your SCSI controller init should show the tape drive as a > sequential access device (you can check that it found it by reading the > output from "dmesg") and assuming it's your only tape drive you can use > it > as /dev/st0. > e.g. > "tar -czvf /dev/st0 /" would attempt to archive a gzip compressed copy > of > your root filesystem onto tape, or "tar -xzvf /dev/st0 ." would attempt > to > restore an archive from the tape to the current directory. > > For low-level backups you can use something like: > dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -c > /dev/st0 > (naturally you shouldn't do this while any partitions on sda are mounted > > read/write). > > > p.s. I am currently trying out a new version of Eudora (mail user agent > for > Windows) which hasn't downloaded it's registration key yet and thinks > it's > operating as advertising supported software. I apologize if it tacked > some > kind of add onto this message. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Jeff Bearer, RHCE Webmaster, PittsburghLIVE.com 2002 EPpy Award Winner, Best Newspaper Website _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
