Tapes of vvrath
Having read a article recently on backups, I have dovvnloaded and installed the RPM for Dump. I vvould appreciate it if you could advise me as to hovv I can configure Dump to vvork vvith my IDE tape drive.
John Wallis, via email
ji fi Aha, the trick here is that you don’t. You
İF k H confiSure y°ur teP6 drive t0 work with
r ««s» 1 Linux, then use Dump to dump to it as a
device. For example:
dump-Ou-f/dev/tapel/home
vvhere tapel is vvhatever your tape drive is
configured as.
If you haven’t yet configured your tape drive to vvork under Linux, you’ll probably need to do a kernel recompile and include IDE/ATAPI TAPE support, vvhich can be found in the IDE/ATAPI Block devices section.
