Re: Exabyte 8200 and backups

[Robert Hart <hartr@interweft.com.au>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Lindsay Castle wrote:

> I have an Exabyte 8200 tape drive on my RH 4.1 (upgraded from 4.0) 
> system, I made a little script to copy each file system as follows:
> 
> cd /
> find . -xdev -name -print | cpio -ocv | dd of=/dev/st0 bs=32k
> find etc -xdev -name -print.... 
> 
> and so on for all my filesystems, problem I have is that the tape drive 
> rewinds after each filesystem, is there a way to stop that on these drives?
> Unfortunately I don't have the documentation for the drive so not sure if 
> it is possible or not.

Use the nstX devices - these are non-rewinding ones.


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