got a question for the sysadmins
DAVID KUCHARSKI
dave at iemco.com
Tue Dec 24 16:05:53 CST 2002
Recently had to rebuild from a drive failure in a SCO Unix box. In the
last few weeks I've learned a bunch about how my tape drive works with
SCO. In the process I added a NEW VXA tape drive to a LINUX box as
well. I found that the SCO box uses a command called tape to CONTROL
the drive. I can use
#tape rewind or #tape amount etc to get all kinds of things to happen
regarding the scsi tape drive.
is there something similar in linux? I've tried tape with no luck. Is
that an option that i'll need to add or what would anyone suggest. If
I'm going to NEED to add something anyway, might as well get your
opinions now. Something simple to use in case i die and have to depend
on one of the non-technical people here to read written instructions to
get a back up or recover from another fatal drive error.
Thanks
Dave
The system is running REDHAT 7.1
in case that matters.
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