Steve King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking to setup a tape backup on my RH linux box(6.0). I have
>a HP Colorado 5G external parallel port tape. Can this be done?
>And if so, how? I can't find any information on how to mount the
>tape drive. Red Hat's site said it supports parallel port connection
>or did I miss read this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can't help with the parallel port question. I *think* you can now use a
parallel port tape drive, but then I've been known to be wrong before. ;-)
You don't mount a tape in the way you mount a disk partition because a tape
drive is not a random access device like a disk drive - it's a sequential
access device. (I know there are software products that attempt to turn a
tape drive into a disk drive - but why bother?) At any rate, you generally
write directly to the device file, something like this:
$ tar -cvf /dev/ftape my_files
The "f" switch tells tar to write to the device file /dev/ftape.
That said, I've used HP's internal floppy tape drives like the TR-1 and
TR-3 under Linux successfully. They're slow, but they work.
HTH
-Eric
Eric Sisler
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