From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Dec 6 13:42:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cydonia.net (mail.cydonia.net [205.238.4.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 316EC14CC7 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:42:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keith@mail.cydonia.net) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.cydonia.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA14023 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:34:15 -0800 Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:34:14 -0800 (PST) From: To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Tape Backup Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In need of some understanding/help. When installing a tape backup system. Is it important to have compatability? I mean, does the system see it as a simple IDE/SCSI device and not realy care what brand/model of tape backup system is?? Does the OS have to make a file system on the tape or is that a function of the tape drive itself? I'm going to be useing dump in FreeBSD to do the backups and don't realy have a good understanding of how tape devices work in FreeBSD. It's my understanding that there realy doesn't need to be any real compatability becouse FreeBSD will just comunicate to the device and the device takes care of the actual writing it in the proper format on the tape no real need for a "driver" for a specific tape device.. Thanks for any help. Keith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message