From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 17:26:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 17:26:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edu001hb001.edumail.vic.gov.au (edu001hb001.edumail.vic.gov.au [203.12.63.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF0E37B400 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:26:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from admin1 (ADMIN-1 [10.77.53.16]) by edu001hb001.edumail.vic.gov.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id V4J9ZPZA; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:21:09 +1100 Message-ID: <00e001c05d98$c4cf8380$10354d0a@admin1> From: "Allan Dib" To: Subject: tape drive commands Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:20:24 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiya all, What commands are ther available for tape drives (especially backups) on a FreeBSD 4.1.1 system. I have used "tar" but it hasn't been 100% successful. I think I need to first format a tape. What commands are there to format tapes / retension etc... Thanks in advance.... Allan.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message