From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 18 16:15:17 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA27466 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 16:15:17 -0800 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA27459 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 16:15:14 -0800 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id TAA19595; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 19:06:32 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 19:06:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: tape INIT ? To: Bill Henderson cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 18 Nov 1995, Bill Henderson wrote: > Since I have VMS exp. and not alot of UNIX exp. can anyone tell me if there is > a tape init command, I have a scsi tape drive that I am trying to backup to > and keep running out of space, it is a 2gig tape and I know the system does not > have taht much data on it, also is there any goog backup progs. for freebsd ? > > How about some ex backup commands ? i am using an exabyte 4mm tape drive "EXABYTE EXB-4200 114" with success. here are the command that i use: #!/bin/sh echo "" >> dump.log echo "" >> dump.log echo "" >> dump.log /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind /sbin/dump 0unBbf 1200000 10 /dev/nrst0 /dev/sd1a 2>&1 | tee -a /root/dump.log /sbin/dump 0unBbf 1200000 10 /dev/nrst0 /dev/sd1e 2>&1 | tee -a /root/dump.log /sbin/dump 0unBbf 1200000 10 /dev/rst0 /dev/sd1f 2>&1 | tee -a /root/dump.log /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 rewoffl > > > thanks... > > Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346