Tape Backup

I am slowly getting an old server up and running, now its the turn of the Tape Drive to have my attention. The tape drive in question is a HP C1537A DDS 3 tape drive unit, it is seen by the systen during boot up (listed in dmesg)and given the ID st0, but it is not shown in /etc/fstab I have googled and found several backup application and some backup scripts but nothing about getting the tape drive running

So my question is what do I need to install to get it up and running. My machine spec and distro are listed below.

Debian Stable with 2.6.8-2-686-smp kernel
KDE 3.3 (because I was brought up on gui and not cli)
The tape drive sits on the same raid card as the disks (3x35gb in raid 5)

Thanks in advance

Tim

 

I think you must use the mount command to mount the drive. See

Code:

man mount

for more information.

 

Found what I needed, it was a small program called mt-st, this gives me access to the tape drive, I now have to choose what program I want to run the backups.

Thanks

Tim