From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 18 13:10:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9749216A400 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:10:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A6B13C44C for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:10:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 1132 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2007 13:10:31 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Apr 2007 13:10:31 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 2E19228434; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:10:30 -0400 (EDT) To: Sean Murphy References: <4623DB08.3050208@calarts.edu> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:10:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4623DB08.3050208@calarts.edu> (Sean Murphy's message of "Mon\, 16 Apr 2007 13\:22\:32 -0700") Message-ID: <448xcpbzg9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mt command questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:10:32 -0000 Sean Murphy writes: > I am learning about backing up to tape and have made quite a bit of > progress with the mt command. I understand what the fsf option does. > There are other options however and would like to understand them as > well. I am looking at the man page and have tried googleing them with > not a lot of luck. the fsr and fss options I understand they would > fast forward but what is "count records" and "count setmarks" > considered and how would I use them? In this context, "count" is a number. I haven't used mt(1) in quite a while, but I don't think I ever used more than one of {files, records, setmarks} on the same tape, andoffhand I can't think of a reason for doing so. If you only put one backup on a given tape, you wouldn't use any of them.