From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 21:53:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05733 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:53:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05724 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:53:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA07831; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:53:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:53:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Adam Bottchen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Colorado Tape Backup System... In-Reply-To: <349DCB37.7809F741@mail.utexas.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Adam Bottchen wrote: > I recently installed Free-BSD v2.2.5 on my P90. I have a Colorado > Jumbo 250 Tape Drive already on the system. I had backed up alot of > data on some tapes under Win 95 version of the Colorado backup > software. I was wondering, with all of the configuration possible with > Free-BSD, is there a way for me to restore from those tapes? Is there a > Free-BSD program that can read the format used under the generic > Colorado Tape Backup software? I tryed the command "ft | tar -tv" to > try and get info on the tape. I got the messages: You forgot to specify the source for tar. You need to have it read from standard input instead of the default tape device. Try this command: ft | tar tf - See ft(8) for info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major