From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 16 04:00:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA17920 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA17901 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA19509 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:00:39 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA15753 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:00:38 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA01175 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 May 1996 11:54:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605160954.LAA01175@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: errros on making floppies To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 11:54:19 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605151919.VAA00203@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "May 15, 96 09:19:46 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Wilko Bulte wrote: > And along with restore a /sbin/mt is needed to do 'mt fsf' like things > on multi-dump tapes /usr/bin/mt (not /sbin/mt) is needed, but only in order to be able to adjust the density and blocksize setting of the tape drive. Skipping over pre-existing dump files is handled by the `s' flag to restore(8). (Do you wonder? After all, dump/restore are the recommended backup tools, and they do know how to handle mag tapes.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)