Re: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups

2006-02-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 04:51, Nick Smith wrote: > i recently accuired a DDS3 tape drive, ive never used a tape drive > with linux at all. what software is out that supports tape drives and > how to i access it? tar -cf /dev/st0 writes to tape tar -xf /drv/st0 reads from tape mt and mtx for r

Re: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups

2006-02-21 Thread brettholcomb
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups > > i recently accuired a DDS3 tape drive, ive never used a tape drive > with linux at all. what software is out that supports tape drives and > how to i access it? what would its device name be? it is a s

[gentoo-user] tape drives and backups

2006-02-20 Thread Nick Smith
i recently accuired a DDS3 tape drive, ive never used a tape drive with linux at all. what software is out that supports tape drives and how to i access it? what would its device name be? it is a scsi drive. is there any software that is command line based but has a menu system, possibly like the