[Sheflug] Tape drive - backing up software?

[James Bruce <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hi guys, got another annoying newbie question for you that the suse manula has been fairly unhelpful with...

ive just got hold of a old HP Surestore 5000 dat drive and ive got it installed right via scsi, its showing up as /dev/nst0 through xscsi, however im not sure how to use to back stuff up...

basically , i have a 20gb data drive in my computer and i want to be able to back it all up should the worst happen someday - bearing in mind that the largest disks my thingy can take are 90m/2gb uncompressed, how can I do this? I read in an old linux magazine that "dump" might be able to help me, but it wasnt too specific and i dont like commmand lines (im sure that'll change at some point...)

thanks in advance, your ever eager to learn james
aca00jab@sheffield.ac.uk

ps: i passed all my first year exams except continuous maths... damn complex numbers :(
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