TAPE STREAM BACKUP

[APHRODITE007]

I have a seagate 4-8gig backup drive
when i try to do a backup using tar -cvf dev/ht0 /(files wanna backup)
get errors about I/O errors such as
ide-tape:ht0: I/O error.
Does anybody know why this could be?
or how else i could backup on a daily basis?

I am running suse 7.0
Tape drive is IDE

Thanks

[bdg1983]

Don't know what could be causing the i/o errors besides a dirty head or bad tape.

You can use cron to schedule the backups. man cron or man crontab for the manual pages.