Backing up VMs to a tape drive
- by Aljoscha Vollmerhaus
I've got myself one of these fancy tape drives, HP LTO2 with 200/400 GB cartridges.
The st driver reports it like this:
scsi 1:0:0:0: Sequential-Access HP Ultrium 2-SCSI T65D
I can store and retrieve files like a charm using tar, both
tar cf /dev/st0 somedirectory
and
tar xf /dev/st0
work flawless.
However, what I…