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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>
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Subject: Re: tape
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On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, michael dorin wrote:

> I have installed a scsi tape drive on my new FreeBSD 2.1.6
> system.
> 
> I can backup all the filesystems, except root.
> 
> What do I have to do to backup root?

Works fine for us.  What commandline are you using, and what error message
do you get?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major