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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:39:47 +0100 (CET)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        Essam Mohsin <itahli@qatar.net.qa>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: tape drive mount
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000125103947.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <388D64A7.641ECA2C@qatar.net.qa>

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On 25-Jan-00 Essam Mohsin wrote:
> Dear Sir :
> 
> I have freeBSD v3.3 ,and i,m using Adaptec scsi card 1540a .
> hard disk and tape drive media are connected to the scsi board .
> i want to know how to mount the tape (it is 4mm) and how to perform the
> backup .

You don't mount a tape drive. You just use dump/restore or tar to/from it. If
it is detected at boot then you can manipulate the tape with the mt command.
If you had supplied the device name I could have given you the commands for
dumping etc. But for now read the manpages for dump, restore, mt (and perhaps a
reread of tar could be of some benefit)


For the flags of dump I use '-0uaf /dev/nrsa0' for a level0 (dump everything)
dump.

/Micke


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