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How will I know what the name of the tape drive is?
And how can I access the drive (mount)?
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I don't know if you really ever mount a tape for general purpose, like you might a file system. Commands like tar, ufsdump, etc... write/read to/from tapes in the drive... (if you tell them to)
JW (<~~~ Captain Obvious)
JW (<~~~ Captain Obvious)
If you install a new tape
on the server you can
with
drvconfig (as root)
the tape install ('mount')
and after ls -la /dev/rmt/
if is OK.
on the server you can
with
drvconfig (as root)
the tape install ('mount')
and after ls -la /dev/rmt/
if is OK.
You can use devfsadm -c tape (-s means class, of which tape is the class we're interested in).
You can then use the mt commands to control the device (so like if we use st0 as the SCSI tape, we'd use mt -f /dev/rmt/st0 rewind to rewind the tape).
To do backups use tar/cpio and/or ufsdump. In Solaris 9 you can snapshot the filesystem so you don't have to kick everybody off first (way cool!)
Best of luck.
You can then use the mt commands to control the device (so like if we use st0 as the SCSI tape, we'd use mt -f /dev/rmt/st0 rewind to rewind the tape).
To do backups use tar/cpio and/or ufsdump. In Solaris 9 you can snapshot the filesystem so you don't have to kick everybody off first (way cool!)
Best of luck.
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