[6005] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Backup instruction desperately needed, this should be easy so please help!y
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Davis)
Mon Nov 25 12:31:03 1996
From: Brad Davis <bdavis@stimpy.drmpark.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:09:55 -0700 (MST)
In-Reply-To: <199611251625.LAA24623@sphinx.Gsu.EDU> from "James Jones" at Nov 25, 96 11:23:11 am
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
>
> This should be easy for you veterans...
>
> O.K. I have gotton so far as to get my tape drive installed and recognized
> by the kernel. Additionally, I had to rig the ncurses to make it like it is
> 2.0 so the backup software kbackup and BRU will work (of which they do
> now). My problem now is that when I try to backup the server, it writes a
> huge file called tape in /dev. My tape drive device is an HP Colorado 1400
> tape drive with a fc20 controller card. I have figured out that the tape
> device is /dev/fd0H1440. How do I make it actually write to the tape? Is
> there some
> "ln -s /dev/??? /dev/???" statement I need to use?
Eek. Your assumption that your tape device is fd0H1440 is WRONG. That device belongs to drive A (in MSDOS terms) and specifies that it's a HD 1.4K floppy.
Right off the bat, if you haven't already done this (and it looks like you haven't...) go read the Ftape HOWTO located in /usr/doc/HOWTO, or located on RedHat's Linux Info page. This HOWTO will give you a walk thru on how to set up your tape devices so that they work properly. I can't remember all the details of creating the devices. They should, however be name rftX and nrftX in your /dev direcotry (for rewinding and non-rewinding tape devices).
The reason you're getting a huge file called tape in your /dev/directory is that the software you're using expects to find an I/O device in /dev/called tape, which points to your tape drive, just like fd0H1440 points to your floppy. Since it either can't find it or it's not properly made, the software iscreating an archive named /dev/tape. You *could* back up this way, and it would work, but hey, you spent the money for the tape, you might as well use it...
Brad Davis
teh.com
--
PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Errata
http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Tips http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists
------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe redhat-list-request@redhat.com < /dev/null
