Thanks for responding everyone ! I found a very good tar script which I want to utilise, but I think I need to take a step back. I think I'm missing something, everyone is mentioning, your tape device should be /dev/tape or /dev/st0 etc..
The only things I have under /dev/ are: /dev/ MAKEDEV ataraid cciss fd ida input printer pts rd usb I'm not sure if it's there ? ^above. When I issue this command, it shows the tape drive there though. cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: DELL Model: 1x4 U2W SCSI BP Rev: 5.35 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD0 RAID5 69356R Rev: 1.01 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 09 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: SDX-300C Rev: 0400 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:466 Rev: 1.06 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Am I missing something ? Thanks all ! -- Ross. > Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <posted & mailed> > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I recently attached a SCSI tape drive to my raid box running > Debian. > > It's a SONY Model: SDX-300C > > > > I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction on how > to get > > it working, backing up. > > I had a look at Amanda, that looked very complicated for me ! > > > > Is there a simpler software package ? > > Try tar. When I first got my tape drive, I tried a lot of fancy > graphical > backup utilities: Perfect Backup, Arkeia, and others. But like you, > my > needs are simple. In the end I just wrote a shell script to call > tar. > It's completely adequate for my needs. > > Remember, the most important thing a tape drive can do is to protect > you in > case of catastrophe, i.e. hard disk crash. In that event, you may > not have > X working, you may be working in a very minimal environment after > booting > from a rescue disk. tar will be there for you, but will you be able > to run > Arkeia or Amanda? > > While we're on the subject, consider building a custom rescue CDROM. > There > are several of them out there. I followed and modified the > instructions at > http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~purschke/RescueCD/, with good results. > With one > of these you can boot your system from CD and be in a good position > to call > tar to get your files back. > > Good luck! > Andrew. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
