Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:47:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: steve@edmweb.com (Steve Reid) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tape drive... how to use? Message-ID: <199604240147.SAA29654@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960423165926.12469A-100000@kirk.edmweb.com> from "Steve Reid" at Apr 23, 96 05:05:51 pm
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Steve Reid wrote: > > I have a SCSI-II Conner Tape-Stor 4000 installed and working. My question > is, how do I use the thing? use dump. set teh B flasg to tell dump how long the tape is. for my 1.3GB tapes i use: "/sbin/dump 0unBbf 1200000 10 /dev/nrst0 /dev/sd1a" > > I've tried tar'ing files, and it seems to work, but I can't tell for sure. > I've checked the man pages for mt, tar and dump, but it doesn't seem to > help much. I just tried restoring a file I tar'ed, but after spinning the > tape for a while tar couldn't find it. > > I would like to be able to back up this machine and another to this tape > drive. The two machines are connected over an ethernet, and I'm running > ssh. > > Please help. I've never really used a tape drive before... once you have dump working locally then try rdump. rdump requires that you get r-cmds working which is another step. look at the rsh man page. a faq entry is in preparation -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/
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