Wiping Old Backup Tapes in Ubuntu
Re: Acces tape-unit with cygwin
To: Wim Versteeg <willem dot versteeg at rug dot ac dot be>
Subject: Re: Acces tape-unit with cygwin
From: Mark Himsley <mark at mdsh dot com>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:22:38 +0100
Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 21:46:13 +0200 you wrote: >Don, > >Thanks for your quick reply. But unfortunately I can't find this tape-device >(tape0) in de cygwin-directory or other dir's. Do I need to do an extra >installation. Please could you inform me how to install/detect this tape-unit? Did you *follow* the simple instructions? The command: mount -f -s -b "//./tape0" "/dev/st0" mounts the device which Windows thinks is the first tape drive onto Cygwin's /dev/st0. You can then control it with mt or just read/write data from/to /dev/st0. The /dev/nst* devices are non-rewind devices, just like Linux. There is PLENTY of information in the archives and on the web site. >Regards, Wim > >Don Sharp wrote: >> >> Wim Versteeg wrote: >> > >> > Hallo, >> > >> > I installed CYGWIN on my PC under winNT without tape-unit. Today I connected a >> > tape-unit via SCSI to my PC . The winNT backup system detects my drive. Could >> > you inform me how to use/install this tape-unit under CYGWIN (by dd if=TAPE or >> > tar....) This tar-option would be interesting for me! >> > >> >> You need to mount the tape decice(s) like >> >> mount -f -s -b "//./tape0" "/dev/st0" >> mount -f -s -b "//./tape0" "/dev/nst0" >> >> Notice the norewind version above >> >> You can now use >> >> dd if=/dev/st0 bs=tape_block_size > file_on_disc >> tar tf /dev/st0 >> >> and >> >> mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 >> >> I hope that helps. >> >> > Regards, Wim Versteeg >> > >> > >> Cheers >> >> Don Sharp -- Mark Himsley In Acton
tl;dr - Truly a special sort of problem.