From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 02:20:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA02283 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 02:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from colin.muc.de (root@colin.muc.de [193.174.4.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA01989 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 02:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [193.174.4.22] ([193.174.4.22]) by colin.muc.de with SMTP id <86020-1>; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:15:13 +0200 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199604221453.KAA09045@pipe4.nyc.pipeline.com> Illegal-Object: Syntax error in References: value found on colin.muc.de: References: from "Lutz Albers" at Apr 17, 96 11: 45: 20 am ^ ^ ^-illegal reference separator | \-illegal reference separator \-illegal reference separator Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:52:29 +0200 To: "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" From: Lutz Albers Subject: Re: dump/tape problems Cc: jlwest@tseinc.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amir Y. Rosenblatt wrote on 22.4.1996 Re: dump/tape problems - > you didn't told dump how large your tapes are. Look at the density, length - > and blocksize options of dump. I personally use the B option with the - > number of tape blocks (1KByte blocks). Something like - > dump u0Bf 100000 /dev/nrst0 / - > BTW, you know that you are using the auto-rewinding device, or ? - - I also found that I wasn;t able to do a restore after I dumped a - filesystem (though I haven't yet tried it with this specific set of - settings). I'm also not 100% sure I have the right DIP switch settings. - Does anyone here know what they might be? What messages do you get while restoring ? Whats not working ? A few more details might be nice :-) ciao lutz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lutz Albers | What's good ? Luederitzstr. 14, 81929-Muenchen, Germany | Life's good - ph: +49-89-93940364 | But not fair at all fax:+49-89-93940365 | (Lou Reed) Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.