>>Try

>>
>>dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1M count=1000

Tried it.
>d if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1M count=1000
dd: writing `/dev/nst0': Invalid argument
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 10.048 s, 0.0 kB/s

Not sure why /dev/nst0 was invalid.  After I ran this I checked out dmesg and 
syslog:

>tail /var/log/syslog
Oct 31 13:58:31 backup kernel: st0: Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] 
Oct 31 13:58:31 backup kernel: st0: Add. Sense: Initiator response timeout
Oct 31 13:58:31 backup kernel: st0: Can't set default compression.

>dmesg | tail
st0: Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] 
st0: Add. Sense: Initiator response timeout
st0: Can't set default compression.

Thanks for looking.

>>BTW, bacula does not use tar.

Oh.  I was just following Bacula's help. From the docs:
http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html#TapeTestingChapter

"Use tar to write to, then read from your drive: 
   mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
   tar cvf /dev/nst0 .
   mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind"

I figured since I couldn't get this far it would be prudent to seek help first.

Thanks for your reply.  :)

Michael



      

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