How to perform appending backup on tape drive. Need urgent help
 

Hi,

I have problems to perform full backup on my tape drive. This command
line is used to rewind the tape to the beginning when it finished the
operation.

mt -f /dev/st0 rewind.

My question is how can I perform appending backups on the tape drive.
Please anyone direct me how to do so. Your help is greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Lenka
:Pengy:

Tape Backup Tutorial
 

This is a good tape Backup Tutorial from IBM...

http://www-105.ibm.com/developerwork...1?OpenDocument

Registration is required, but mostly painless.

I have scsi dat tape. If you use /dev/nst0 this is the non rewinding device.
mt -f /dev/nst0 eod will position the tape at end of data then you can append another tar archive.
mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
rewinds the tape.
Given this you can write your own archive script if you like.