tapes and tarballs

• Only need a few basic commands

• Most tapes devices are recognized as /dev/st0

  • tar -cvf /dev/st0 /home /etc /var (to backup)
  • tar -xvf /dev/st0 /tmp (to restore)

• Other basic commands

  • mt -f /dev/st0 rewind (to rewind tape)
  • mt -f /dev/st0 offline (to eject)

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