From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 13:10:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.pressenter.com (hermes.pressenter.com [209.224.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3BF37B405 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:10:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from [209.224.32.177] (helo=daggar) by hermes.pressenter.com with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 163OL7-0003E1-00; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:09:58 -0600 From: "Stephen Hilton" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Cc: "Bill Moran" Subject: RE: reading SGI backup tapes on FreeBSD Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:10:28 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <3BF00FB5.70205@potentialtech.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill, > According to the SGI backup/restore program, cpio was used to make the > backups. So I've tried cpio on FreeBSD with no success. Usually I get > an "Input/Output" error. "bru" is used also on these system for backup, IIRC your error message sound familiar to trying to read a SGI bru DAT tape on a FreeBSD system with tar. You may be able to get a "bru" demo for FreeBSD and try that on the tapes. Regards, Stephen Hilton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message