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Fedora Linux Tape Drive Device Name and Backup Commands
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23-11-2008, 10:49 PM
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Fedora Linux Tape Drive Device Name and Backup Commands
I have a machine with 2 scsi dat72 tape drives on fedora
it finds the drives as dm-0 and dm-1 I am trying to copy files to them but is not working how do i set these up to enable me to back up to them Thanks MadMacher 
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27-11-2008, 10:57 PM
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What commands you are using to copy to tape device? Usually tape device name is /dev/st0, so running following should give you our information about 1st tape device:
Code:
mt -f /dev/st0 status
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