program - although it is designed for backing up entire networks (rather than one PC). amanda also supports "auto-changers", if you configure it to. I have never set up amanda, but at first glance it looked a bit involved. It's probably not as bad as it looks. On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Mike Glaser wrote: > 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- What the president of the Motion Picture Association of America says about taking away your constitutional rights: "I'm rather jubilant now. What Judge Kaplan did was blow away every one of these brittle and fragile rebuttals. He threw out fair use; he threw out reverse engineering; he threw out linking." - Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ______ _ __ "If you don't have the freedom to use what you / ' ) ) own - then you do not own anything." / o ______ / / _ . . No apologies to Jack Valenti or the MPAA / <_/ / / < / (_</_(_/_ -- tneu at visi.com / http://www.visi.com/~tneu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org