From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 29 9:32:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vortex.wa4phy.net (cc449817-a.mrtnz1.ga.home.com [24.12.79.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A794337B405 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 09:32:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from vortex.wa4phy.net (localhost.wa4phy.net [127.0.0.1]) by vortex.wa4phy.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBTHWYX16741 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:32:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sam@wa4phy.net) Message-ID: <3C2DFE32.19E61C8B@vortex.wa4phy.net> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:32:34 -0500 From: Sam Drinkard Organization: You Gotta Be Kiddin! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dump Device? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Having figured out bad tapes were blowing up any type of tape activity, I now question *which* dump device is proper to use. Have read all the stuff on dump, and the handbook entries about backups. Is it proper to use /dev/nrsa0, /dev/sa0, or what? Does it really matter ? Tnx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message