From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 7 13:56:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 421E714A19 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:56:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA06948; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 15:56:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 15:56:23 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: Micke Josefsson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/rsa0 Message-ID: <19991207155623.A6896@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from "keith@mail.telestream.com" on Tue Dec 7 13:33:57 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 07), keith@mail.telestream.com said: > If I opted to go ahead and use tar, would that mean I would need to format > the tapes and create a filesystem on the tape as opposed to a raw dump. No; you can tar directly to a tape without any preparation. The tarfile itself won't have any name, of course, apart from the implicit name "first file on the tape". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message