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Compared to Windows, the world of Unix backup is extraordinarily rich. You have many tools available, from basic to quite complex and extensive. Just knowing what tool to use is a challenge in itself.
Bill Vermillion's Tape Articles-Part 2, Recording and Playback Heads A recording head is a horseshoe magnet taken to the extreme. The difference is that the open end of a recording head is extremely small. The easiest way to understand a very basic recording head is take a ring of metal, and cut a very small slot through it. Then we wrap some turns of wire around this ring on the side opposite the slot. Connect the wire it to an electron source, we will have a magnet with the magnetic field focused at that very small gap opposite the coil of wire.
Reading SCO tapes on Linux This is the problem & a solution from the time I had to read some old SCO tapes on a Linux 2.4 system. I also ran into the same problem with tapes created on a 2.2 kernel linux. This might be useful for someone someday.
Bill Vermillion's Tape Articles-Part 2, Recording and Playback Heads A recording head is a horseshoe magnet taken to the extreme. The difference is that the open end of a recording head is extremely small. The easiest way to understand a very basic recording head is take a ring of metal, and cut a very small slot through it. Then we wrap some turns of wire around this ring on the side opposite the slot. Connect the wire it to an electron source, we will have a magnet with the magnetic field focused at that very small gap opposite the coil of wire.
Reading SCO tapes on Linux This is the problem & a solution from the time I had to read some old SCO tapes on a Linux 2.4 system. I also ran into the same problem with tapes created on a 2.2 kernel linux. This might be useful for someone someday.
| Title | Date | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transfer SCO Acucobol to Linux | 2004 06 | ||||
| Backups | 2003 02 | 2007/03/30 10:33 TimSutinen | |||
| Reading SCO tapes on Linux | 2003 01 | 2005/03/23 00:17 anonymous | |||
| Tape Autoloader on 2.4 Linux | 2003 01 | ||||
| Tape Drive or CDROM Not Found | 2002 10 | ||||
| Bill Vermillion's Tape Articles-Part 5 | 2001 04 | ||||
| Bill Vermillion's Tape Articles-Part 4, QIC Tape Format | 2001 01 | ||||
| Bill Vermillion's Tape Articles-Part 3, Storage Media | 2000 12 | ||||
| Bill Vermillion's Tape Articles-Part 2, Recording and Playback Heads | 2000 12 | ||||
| Bill Vermillion's Tape Articles-Intro- Magnetism and Electrons | 2000 12 | ||||
| Bill Vermillion's Tape Articles | 2000 12 | ||||
| A Potential Disaster Using CPIO | 2000 07 | ||||
| OSR5 Tape Autoloaders | 2000 05 | ||||
| Super Tars | 1998 12 | ||||
| Using Tapes and tape drives | 1998 09 | ||||
| Using Unixware 7 Tape Drives | 1998 08 | ||||
| I can't read a cpio archive created on a Linux box- it fails with premature end of file | 1997-2003 | ||||
