From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 29 15:24:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27291 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:24:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from heather.greatbasin.com (heather.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27286 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:24:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (rno-max6-06.gbis.net [207.228.61.134]) by heather.greatbasin.com (8.9.0/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA19465 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:23:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <000301be3382$40bc4d40$010a000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Dump to Floppy Tape? Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:23:30 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Happy New Year, everyone! I realize that floppy tapes are not the ideal backup device, but I have an old Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive that I'd like to use (instead of floppies!). When I run the command 'dump -f /dev/rft0 /usr', I get the message "DUMP: bad sblock magic number" and dump quits. Does dump support floppy tape drives, or am I missing something? Also, does the 'ft' command (ala, 'tar cvzf - /usr | ft "/usr save"') support multiple-tape spanning? I'm a newbie looking for a quick, simple way to backup before I make world and build a custom kernal. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA, --Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message