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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:08:59 +0300
From: Manny Kaiser <manny DOT kaiser AT gmail DOT com>
Reply-To: Manny Kaiser <manny DOT kaiser AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin and tape backup
Cc: Hugh Sparks <hugh AT csparks DOT com>
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On 6/9/05, Manny Kaiser <manny DOT kaiser AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>  I have a win2k client with a SCSI card connected to a Quantum l200 tape
> loader - dlt7000 tape drive with a 8 slot robot.
>  
>  I made a backup of  data on a dlt7000 connected to a Unix machine with the
> tar command.
>  I would like now to read this tape with the hardware mentioned above.
>  
>  I have read the html doc. below
>  I attempted to do:
>  mt -f /dev/st0 status
>  and get the response resource busy.
>  
>  any suggestions?
>  
>  Thanks
>  
>  Manny Kaiser
> 
> 
> On 6/9/05, Hugh Sparks <hugh AT csparks DOT com> wrote:
> > > I came across your article on nfs and cygwin.
> > > Possibly you can help me out.
> > > I have connected a tape drive to a scsi card on my win2k box.
> > > I have a tape with tar files I created from a linux/unix backup. 
> > 
> > I have no personal experience reading tapes with Cygwin (or
> > Windows for that matter.) I notice that folks who work with
> > tapes seem to experience constant and mysterious injustices.
> > (This has been true for at least 35 years.) 
> > 
> > I know that once you get the data off the tap, there are lots of
> > tools in both Cygwin and native windows (FilZip for example)
> > that will deal with the tar archive.
> > 
> > Most Windows-based tools that work with tape do so with 
> > proprietary formats that become a total loss when the company
> > that makes the backup device goes out of business. You are fortunate
> > that the tape was created with Linux. At least the data can be
> > decoded once you can read the drive. 
> > 
> > I'd get on the web with Google and search using a set of keys such
> > as:
> > 
> >     Cygwin SCSI tape
> > 
> > I did this for you and it appears that people do have success using
> > the Cygwin/Posix device drivers. Here is one reference I found in 
> > about 4 seconds:
> > 
> >    
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
> > 
> > Let me know if you succeed. I might face the problem myself someday. 
> > 
> > -Hugh Sparks, hugh AT csparks DOT com
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Manny Kaiser
> Mobile: +972-(0)50-8221122 


-- 
Manny Kaiser
Mobile: +972-(0)50-8221122

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