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Subject: [386bsd] Help me! I need SCSI tape with mt(1) or no rewind
Keywords: SCSI ernst1a rewind mt tar cpio diskspace
Message-ID: <85549@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 18 Dec 92 12:35:13 GMT
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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I'm running out of diskspace fast (96% full) and I was wondering
if someone could tell me the best way to back up, say, the {src,bin,etc}
distributions. I have a 350MB tape, but I cannot fit all on the diskdrive
at once. So I'd like to put one on tape at a time. Will gnutar's append
command properly append to a SCSI tape? What is the exact procedure for this?
And where can I get a mt(1) command or a SCSI tape driver that works?
My SCSI.shar is an 11-part from julian's files on r.t.c.... And it
doesn't seem to work for me. I have the standard kernel with all the
patchkit patches, plus one minor fix for the slipstuff, plus this SCSI
kit. I copied the MAKEDEV in and made all the tape stuff. /dev/[e][nr]st?
complains "init: device not configured". Also, the old /dev/[r]as?? mknod
numbers still seem wierd, what is the command to get rid of all of them
and remake?
What am I doing wrong?
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