From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 12:38:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA02191 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 12:38:45 -0800 Received: from hoover.stanford.edu (hoover.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA02186 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 12:38:43 -0800 Received: from HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU by HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #13307) id <01HXD1672N280033J2@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>; Tue, 07 Nov 1995 12:38:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 12:38:14 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson Subject: Tape Backup To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01HXD16748XE0033J2@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-VMS-Cc: ANDRSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to find some way to back up to an Archive Viper tape drive. /sbin/dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 / starts trying to dump but then says: st0(aic:0:3:0): NOT READY csi:0,0,40,0 DUMP: Cannot open output "/dev/nrst0. Any suggestions on how to make this work--with dump, cpio, or tar-- would be appreciated. Annelise