[wellylug] Backing up to a SCSI tape drive

[Cliff Pratt]

Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> I have recently been given an external SCSI DLT drive that I have hooked 
> up to my machine and can use from Windows but would also like to be able 
> to use it from Linux. The details from dmseg are:
> 
> i91u: PCI Base=0xEC00, IRQ=18, BIOS=0xFF000, SCSI ID=7
> i91u: Reset SCSI Bus ...
> scsi0 : Initio INI-9X00U/UW SCSI device driver; Revision: 1.04a
>  Vendor: SUN       Model: DLT4000           Rev: CD50
>  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> st: Version 20050312, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
> Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA 
> 1048575
> 
> How would I go about using this drive? Are there any good GUI tape 
> backup programs around?
> 
"good" and "GUI" in the same sentence??????

tar cvf /dev/st0 <whatever you want to back up>.

Of course you might want to

mt -f /dev/st0 rewind first.

Ah and ensure that the SCSI drivers are loaded even firster.

Cheers,

Cliff