From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 23:26:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA13516 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA13499 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA00836; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:25:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jacques Hugo cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape In-Reply-To: <34222D41.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Jacques Hugo wrote: > Are there any SCSI Tape Howto for fbsd that > tells you more about block sizes, archive apps, > etc? 1. Use dump. 2. If dump will accept the -a option, use it; otherwise use the -B and -b options to specify the tape size. Do _not_ use the -d and -s options. FYI, the -a option tells dump to use the whole tape until it hits EOT. The -B and b options specify # of records and the record size. A sample script follows. It actually dumps to a remote host, but remove the `r' and the hostname and you get the idea. rdump 0uBbf 2000000 10 resnet2.uoregon.edu:/dev/nrst0 / rdump 0uBbf 2000000 10 resnet2.uoregon.edu:/dev/nrst0 /var rdump 0uBbf 2000000 10 resnet2.uoregon.edu:/dev/nrst0 /usr rdump 0uBbf 2000000 10 resnet2.uoregon.edu:/dev/rst0 /usr1 In all cases, see the dump(8) man page before beginning! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo