[PLUG] Adding a SCSI tape drive

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Russell Senior wrote:

> That's not a "mount point".  You don't "mount" tapes.  The interface with
> tape is through a character device.  Probably the tape device is at
> /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 (I use the latter, a non-rewinding device which
> doesn't rewind after every operation, you do it manually instead).

   True. I use both st and nst. The weekly, full backups rewind the tape and
write from the beginning; the daily, incremental backups start at the end of
the last one.

> "man mt".  Typically, you want to check the status before you do anything
> else:

   Careless fingers.

Thanks, Russell.

Rich

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