From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 8 15:31:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F5237BD6F for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 15:31:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 12ow3M-0003NB-03; Tue, 9 May 2000 00:31:04 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA61991 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 8 May 2000 23:43:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked Date: 8 May 2000 23:43:04 +0200 Message-ID: <8f7cd8$1sgv$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <200005051816.LAA80655@apollo.backplane.com> <61326.957793693@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Given that having things move around in the base system carries with it > varying degrees of pain, can you guys just explain why this is actually > necessary? Your tape drive has a quirk but no entry yet in the kernel quirk table, (or you simply use non-default settings for your backups for some good reason), and you need to manually set the block size, density, or some such before you can read back your backup. (Is the EOT model an issue for reading, too?) > Didn't someone point out a way to use restore in the absence > of mt? You can use restore's "-s" flag to position to a particular file. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message