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Linux Tape Backup With mt And tar Command Howto

Magnetic tape is a non-volatile storage medium consisting of a magnetic coating on a thin plastic strip. Nearly all recording tape is of this type, whether used for video, audio storage or general...

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How do I backup Thunderbird mail and profile under Linux?

Q.I'm Ubuntu Linux user and I'd like to keep backup of my email and mail settings. How do I backup Thunderbird mail and profile under any Linux distribution?Read answer to: "How do I backup...

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Can I use tape drive with XEN VPS / Guest oses?

Q. I’ve CentOS 5.0 server running XEN kernel. VPS Guest is Linux distribution. How do I use tape drive with XEP Guest os? A. You can’t use character devices such as tape drives in Xen guests. This is...

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How To Extract a Single File / Directory from Tarball Archive

How do I extract a single file or directory form a tarball under UNIX / Linux shell prompt? How do I restore a single file from /dev/st0 tape device?Read answer to: "How To Extract a Single File /...

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Linux tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: Invalid argument error and solution

Q. When I run tar command it fails with an error that read as follows: tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: Invalid argument How do I fix this error under CentOS / Debian / Fedora / RHEL Linux HP server...

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