Archiving Data; Writing To A Data Cassette - HP Visualize J5000 Owner's Manual

Using Your Digital Data Storage (DDS) Tape Drive
Operating the DDS Tape Drive

Archiving Data

This section describes how to transfer data to and from a DDS-format
data cassette (saving and restoring) using the HP-UX tar command and
your tape drive's device file.
The tar command allows you to save files to a data cassette, restore files
from a data cassette to your system, or list the files on your data cassette.

Writing to a Data Cassette

Use the following instructions to save files to a data cassette:
1. Check that the write-protect tab on the data cassette is in the write
position.
2. Load the data cassette into the tape drive.
3. In a terminal window, enter the following command line to write to
the tape:
tar -cvf /dev/rmt/ devicefile pathname
where devicefile is one of the device files listed from ioscan and
pathname is the pathname of the file or directory containing files
that you want to write to the tape. To use the data-compression mode,
use one of the device file names that sam listed as supporting
compression.
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