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Date:      Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:11:11 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Formatting a tape?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903192110540.69828@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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mt rewind should suffice. AFAIK DLT tapes doesn't need to be formatted

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Jaime wrote:

> I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system.  With one of the tapes, I
> can get "tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / ." to work.  With all the other
> tapes, I can't.
>
> Is there some kind of formatting process that I need to do?  I tried
> "mt fsf 1" from this page:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/backups-tapebackups.html
>
> This didn't seem to work, though.
>
> Any help is appreciated,
> Jaime
>
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