From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 25 21:53:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18916 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:53:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from serv.unibest.ru (serv.unibest.ru [194.87.33.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA18904 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:52:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from osa@unibest.ru) Received: (qmail 8954 invoked from network); 25 Mar 1998 18:46:07 -0000 Received: from softdnserror (HELO hole.etrust.ru) (200.1.6.2) by serv.unibest.ru with SMTP; 25 Mar 1998 18:46:07 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:46:29 +0300 (MSK) From: Ozz!!! X-Sender: osa@hole.etrust.ru To: Mike Alich cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Drives In-Reply-To: <35193FC2.3C59@cyber-com.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Mike Alich wrote: > Hope you can help.... > > I am running a native 2 gig tape drive which is identified by FreeBSD as > the Archive Python. All the mt commands work etc.. > > My problem is when I use the DUMP command to backup a files system I can > only get about 30 megs on the tape and it says it is full. > > Is there a setting where I need to tell the system the size or length of > tape?? What seems to be going on here? > > Thanks for any help! > Don't worry! All is OK! choose -a options !!! # /sbin/dump -0u -a -f /dev/nrst0 /usr/src I think it help you!! Rgdz, oZZ, osa@unibest.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message