[NTLUG:Discuss] SCSI tape changers

[kbrannen@gte.net]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> How well do SCSI tape drives work in linux?  Can one span a tar against
> serveral tapes in one of those Seagate 20/40 6 tape  auto loader tape
> drives?
> 
> I just hate to spend the extra money to get a huge 110Gig (in this
> case...Overland SuperDLT) drive.

Don't know about that drive, I used SCSI QIC tapes on Linux for years--until 
about a year or so ago when I depreciated their use in favor of CDs.  I would 
just tar up dirs/files smaller than the tape capacity.  Or for the really big 
files, do "tar -cMf ..." (read up on the -M flag).

HTH,
Kevin