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Subject: Re: Magnetic Tape Q
To: lindgren@istudio.no (Simon Lindgren)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 12:59:40 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961207165308.00ba0354@istudio.no> from Simon Lindgren at "Dec 7, 96 04:53:10 pm"
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In a previous message, Simon Lindgren said:
> I have a Seagate CTT8000 SCSI internal magtape unit, which I would
> like to use to backup my FreeBSD 2.1.6 system.
> 
> I am also quite lost at figuring out how to mount it (do I need to?).
> I can use the "mt" utility to query it, and make it go "buzz" and rewind
> and such, but writing to it is far away. Disklabel, then newfs, then mount
> is the procedure I am currently trying to find info on, but I'm also
> uncertain this has anything to do with using tapes.
> 
> I would greatly appreciate an answer (or pointers to such).

You don't mount it. Write to the raw device:

	dump 0Bbuf 2000000 20 /dev/rst0 /
or
	tar -cvf /dev/rst0 /

or cat or cpio or whatever.

Paul.

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