From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 18: 6:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.az.home.com (ha1.rdc1.az.home.com [24.1.240.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DC014D1B for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:06:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Received: from cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com ([24.14.27.99]) by mail.rdc1.az.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991230020636.JMZQ2369.mail.rdc1.az.home.com@cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com> for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:06:36 -0800 From: Laszlo Vagner Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 02:05:20 GMT Message-ID: <19991230.2052000@cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com> Subject: how to do a backup To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.1; Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I never used a tape drive and recently got an aiwa gd-8000 which uses 120meter tapes. The drive is recognised as SA0 and i have a new tape in the drive (unformatted?) what are the commands to back up my whole system to this tape and the commands to restore the system from it. I am assuming a dump would be possible.... Thanks for all your help you have given me. George To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message