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Need help with SCSI Tape backup
This is my first attempt at using a tape backup on a Linux/UNIX system and I
am in need of some help. I am faced with having to take whatever I can find
out of a box of of old equipment and find a tape backup solution where I work.
I have searched through all of the Linux HOW-TOs that I could find and
haven't come up with anything.
Here's exactly where I am at...
Have one one (apparently working) BusLogic BT-946C PCI SCSI card. I have
found this card on RedHat's list of Tier 1 supported SCSI adapters.
I have one HP internal DDS2 tape drive with part number C1539-69201. I
haven't found the common name for it yet. I also have one HP external
SureStore Tape 6000 drive. I only need one of these to work. I thought I would
go with the internal unit as that is known to be functional and more 'out-of-the-
way'
I installed the SCSI card into a Mandrake 7.0 system I am going to use for
testing purposes. Kudzu found the new hardware and correctly identified it
and configured it. I then rebooted with the internal drive connected to the
SCSI card and the system booted normally without any mention of new
hardware. I am not sure if it should have 'discovered' the drive or not.
Question: How do I communicate with this tape drive? It is the only SCSI
device in the system and I have no experience with SCSI devices.
I need to figure out how to mount it somehow so I can use dd, cpio, tar, etc. to
write to it. Would Amanda be a good tool to use?
If anyone could point me to some how-tos or web sites that could help I would
appreciate it. I may pick up the O'Reilly book 'Unix Backup and Recovery' in
the next day or two - I think that it could be valuable considering my level of
expertise at the moment.
Thank-you,
Mike Glaser