Re: [aclug-L] How to mount a tape drive?

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Might I just interject here that a command line of -cvSpf would
prbably be more appropriate when backing things up.

-- John

"Clint A. Brubakken" <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> It was my understanding you don't mount a tape drive. you just tar to it
> ie
> 
> tar -cvf /dev/st0 /
> should back up the whole system
> 
> 
> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Kong Wo wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >     I have a SCSI tape drive which is detected on /dev/st0. What I like
> > to do is try to mount the tape drive to /root/tape directory.
> > I tried to mount it so many times using #mount -t ext2 /dev/st0
> > /root/tape, however; is was unsucessfully. I like to know what is the
> > magic string which allow me to mount the tape drive since I like to back
> > up my whole system. Thank for any helps. Currently, I am using RedHat
> > 6.0.
> > 
> > Kong Wo
> > 
> > 
> 
> Clint Brubakken
> Developer, Computer Science Services Group, LLC
> Dictator-for-Life Air Capital Linux Users Group 
> Independent Web Programming Contracting
> Wichita, KS
> cabrubak@xxxxxxx
> ---
> "If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an 
> abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently."
> 
>   -- Linus Torvalds on Microkernels (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and 
> Associates)
> 
> 

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