We have two tape drives now attached to Algol. The first is an exabyte tape drive listed under
/dev/st0 (or /dev/nst0 depending on if you are using no rewind or not)
The SDLT 320 tape drive is listed under /dev/st1 (/dev/nst1).
To read data from the exabyte. Simply CD into the directory you want to put your data in. Then use the command:(must be run as root)
>>tar xvf /dev/st0
If this fails, try setting the bock size and density using these two commands and then try again.
>>mt setdensity 0x00
>>mt setblk 0
To extract from the SDLT tape drive, the tar command should work as well.
WARNING: When retrieving data from tape, make sure the directory you are in is empty as you can overwrite data files without even realizing it.
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