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I hope someone out ther can help me on this one. I have installed Solaris
x86 on a Gateway and all is well. Now I need to back the sucker up to the
tape drive. The system has an internal Seagate Travan CTT800S SCSI tape
drive. How do I back up to this thing? Should it have rrecognised the
device during the install of Solaris? I think I will settle for using TAR
to back to the tape unless there is a better option in Solaris but I am in
need of the comand to do so. I am teaching myself Unix admin on the fly
with help from those on the net so I appreciate the help and patience.
Thanks for your time,
Sam Nickerson

: tape drive. The system has an internal Seagate Travan CTT800S SCSI tape
: drive. How do I back up to this thing? Should it have rrecognised the

You should have /dev/rmt that contains:
0     0bn   0cb   0cn   0hb   0hn   0lb   0ln   0mb   0mn   0u    0ubn
0b    0c    0cbn  0h    0hbn  0l    0lbn  0m    0mbn  0n    0ub   0un

The only ones I really care about are 0 and 0n.  To back up to your tape
with tar and not have the tape rewind when you're done, you'll want to
use something like:
tar cvf /dev/rmt/0 . (plucked straight from the tar man page)
if you don't want it to rewind (i.e. so you can put another tar file
after it), use /dev/rmt/0n.

To restore later, you'll have to use the mt command with something like
mt fsf 6
to forward space over 6 EOF markers (assuming the tape has been
rewound).

Once you get the hang of this and you are looking to find something else
to waste time on, look at the man pages for ufsdump and ufsrestore...

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Stephen M. Forinash

-Not connected to reality, only the Internet.