From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 11:04:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11473 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11460 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 11:04:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10686; Wed, 6 May 1998 11:03:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:03:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "J.A. Terranson" cc: "Abraham J. Stephens" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Colorado 120 QIC tape drives. In-Reply-To: <01BD787A.7E3D6D20@w3svcs.mfn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 May 1998, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > > What dump command are you using? > > > dump -0 -f /dev/rft0 /etc > also tried several variants... You have to dump entire filesystems. Amend this to dump 0af /dev/rft0 / and you'll be off and running. (Note the addition of 'a' so that it will try to fill the tape first and not rely on the silly tape size defaults.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message