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Ummm... Once again, you have the command arguments backwards (in what
you pasted at least). Do the following:
tar cvf /dev/ht0 /home
You were, once again, trying to backup the device /dev/ht0 to the file
/home which simply isn't possible because /home is actually a directory.

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:35, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jason Santos wrote:
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> > On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 17:55, Bryce C wrote:
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> > The correct way to backup /home to a tape device using tar would be:
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> > tar cvf /dev/ht0 /home
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> > or
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> > tar cf /dev/ht0 /home
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> Damn, do I feel dumb! I even looked it up in "Running Linux" because I=20
> hadn't done it in awhile and proceeded to type it backwards. *However*,=20
> the result is the same:
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> [root@localhost /]# tar cvf /home /dev/ht0
> tar: /home: Cannot open: Is a directory
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> >=20
> > If you want to check the status of the tape drive:
> > mt -f /dev/ht0 status
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> [root@localhost holtzm]# mt -f /dev/ht0 status
> SCSI 2 tape drive:
> File number=3D0, block number=3D0, partition=3D0.
> Tape block size 22790 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
> Soft error count since last status=3D0
> General status bits on (0):
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> The only problem is I don't know what this is telling me. Can you deciphe=
r=20
> this?
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> Thanks for the reply. Thanks also to Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net> who climb=
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> on me for the same thing.
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
CoBryce Communications

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