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Subject: Re: Tape Backup.....
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William Woods writes:
 > Ok, what software is avaliable?

What did you use with linux ?
(as a hint: cpio, tar, dump/restore, amanda, ...)

Next time try "man -k tape":
bcd(6), ppt(6), morse(6) - reformat input as punch cards, paper tape or morse co
de
ft(8)                    - QIC 40/80 floppy tape drive controller
mt(1)                    - magnetic tape manipulating program
mtio(4)                  - FreeBSD magtape interface
rmt(8)                   - remote magtape protocol module
st(4)                    - SCSI tape driver
tar(1)                   - tape archiver; manipulate tar archive files
tcopy(1)                 - copy and/or verify mag tapes
wt(4)                    - Archive/Wangtek cartridge tape driver
smbtar(1)                - shell script for backing up SMB shares directly to UN
IX tape drive

or "man -k archi"
<Result left as excercise for the reader>

And first of all try "man man" and surf the tons of information
on http://www.freebsd.org/
That information was written on some purpose, ... guess what.

Malte.

 > 
 > On 30-Jul-98 Malte Lance wrote:
 > > William Woods writes:
 > >  > IThe machiene I put FreeBSD on happens to have a Floppy Tape drive in it.
 > > In
 > >  > Linux there was a driver (ftape), is there anything like this in FreeBSD?
 > > If
 > >  > so...where...
 > > 
 > > Yes, configure your kernel to support it. Have a look into
 > > /sys/i386/conf/LINT:
 > > 
 > ># Standard floppy disk controllers and floppy tapes: `fdc', `fd', and `ft'
 > > tape            ft0     at fdc0 drive 2
 > > 
 > > Malte.
 > > 

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