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Backup / Restore from the USB disk mount to LTO8 tape:
i. Attach the USB hard disk drive to the computer.
ii. Confirm that filesystem has been mounted ( you can use gnome ‘nautilus’ file system
manager.) #By default, Cent OS 7 has automount feature.
iii. /dev/nst0 device is the LTO 8 drive.
iv. Now you can backup files on the mounted drive to LTO8 tape using ‘tar cvf ’command.
v. You can access the LTO8 tape drive by using ‘mt’ command.
vi. When restoring file(s) from the LTO8 tape to the USB disk, you must move properly the
tape head using the ‘mt’ command.
vii. *To restore a tar archive to the USB disk, you should use ‘tar xvf’ command.
*caution, this will overwrite the existing data on the hard drive.
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