hello everyone: i have one question about to use tape driver our company have one Sun server that has a CDROM and a tape driver,however that tape driver cant use one kind of tape ,so i have to another tape driver which connects the sun server with SCSI i connect the tape driver ,and insert the tape ,and use following command to backup "/" in the tape: drvconfig tapes ufsdump 0f /dev/rmt/1 / but i find that the "/" isnt backup in the tape which in the second tape driver ,but in the hard disk. who can tell me how can i backup "/" in that tape?

Hi First of all enter this command on your console #ls -l /dev/rmt/? | sed `s/.*rmt\///` Once you enter this command the system will show line wihch may start from 0 or 1 . in the out put of this command you can get the idea of which tape device is connected to which logical number. But before taking backup through ufsdump please do the following 1.Pl verify that tape cartrage is not write protected. 2.Rewind the tape by #mt -f /dev/rmt/{tapes logical number}n rewind #ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/{0 or 1}n / I hope this will work suk