From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Sep 29 00:59:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA21608 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 00:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA21563 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 00:59:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA24991; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 17:59:04 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 17:59:02 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: "Mark S. Velasquez" cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960927193337.006ac718@207.100.94.5> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Mark S. Velasquez wrote: > > Well, I know I'm asking a stupid question, but I'll do it anyways : > > > This seems to work fine, however, when I do a "restore -if" to look at the > tape, I can only see the first(/) filesystem I dumped. > I'm doing an "mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1", etc. , to skip to the next dump-file ^ You are skipping on a rewinding device. You need to skip without rewinding :-) Danny > on the tape, but I never get to the next dump. Does mt work on FreeBSD 2.1.5 > with my tape drive ? or am I misremembering how to skip to the next > dump-file ? Admittedly its been several years since I was involved with > system backup. > > TIA > > Mark > >