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useing a dat on solaris 8

How do I access my dat tape drive
on my UNIX box?

I need to know the way to write files to it
and how to recover them. I am running Solaris 8.

Should I just use tar and write to the device?
how do I determine the device name. What is the
best way.

How do I control the tape rewind and forward
etc.

Thanks.

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liddler

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Otetelisanu

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CadburyCat

I assume that you can see the tape drive. (Another user stated to use <drvconfig> that use forgot to also issue <devlinks> and then <tapes>. This method is depricated.)

For Solaris 8 and newer, use one step <devfsadm>.

Once you can see the tape ( mt -f /dev/rmt/0n status ) with a tape in the drive.

Now to answer your question as to the method used for copiying data to and fro your tape.

I would suggest ufsdump to backup your system.

I would suggest ufsrestore to resotre your system(read the man page especially concerning the -i option for interactrive restore)

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micahman

I agree with yuzh. I just wanted to add that you may want to buy/go to a bookstore and look at O'Reilly's "Unix Backup & Recovery" book (1999, W. Curtis Peterson author) if you are going to be doing any significant work in backup and recovery. There is a LOT of good stuff in there. You can look at http://www.oreilly.com/unixbr/ for more info on the book.

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