From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 8 16:27:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81C537B922 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 16:27:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26842; Mon, 8 May 2000 16:26:00 -0700 Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 16:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked In-Reply-To: <8f7cd8$1sgv$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8 May 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > 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?) No. > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message