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Re: Accessing a tape device as a block device
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Tue Oct 27 13:03:22 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:39:30 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@INAME.COM>
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In-Reply-To: <00be01be01bf$09bf5cf0$58624ec6@cowboy.syncroflo.com>; from Toby Herring on Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 10:32:42AM -0500
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Toby Herring writes:
> I have a problem that I can't seem to figure out, and it's EXTREMELY
> time-sensitive. I have an old SCO UNIX box with a database that I need to
> transfer to my new Linux box, along with the custom software that it belongs
> to. The old box has no network card, so I can't FTP the files, and the only
> removable media on the machine is the backup tape drive, which is external.
>
> Is there any way that I can use the tape like a giant floppy drive, so I can
> copy files from the one drive, onto the tape, then install the tape drive on
> my new machine, and copy the files onto the new system?
Is this a SCSI tape drive? In any case, I'd expect the right command to be
tar, i.e. something along the lines of 'tar cf /dev/<SCO_TAPE_DEVICE> file'
on the SCO machine and then 'tar xf /dev/<LINUX_TAPE_DEVICE>' on the Linux
box. Unfortunately, I have no experience with SCO, so I don't know which
/dev entry will be the right one. For a SCSI tape on a Linux box, I *think*
it is /dev/stX with X between 0 and 8, but it's been quite a while since I
last used that, so I could be completely wrong here.
Not much, I'm afraid, but maye it helps a bit...
Thomas
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