From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 9 20:38:55 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 D8EB337B6AF for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 20:38:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA31888; Tue, 9 May 2000 20:37:26 -0700 Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 20:37:54 -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 Well, I'm not sure what consensus is about this, but I'm gone for 3 weeks. Soembody assign this one to me if you want me 'own' the issue when I get back. 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?) > > > 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