Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 07:06:55 -0800 (PST) From: bmk@dtr.com To: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe Charnier) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tape Sun -> FreeBSD Message-ID: <199501121506.HAA01489@dtr.com> In-Reply-To: <199501130728.IAA11454@lirmm.lirmm.fr> from "Philippe Charnier" at Jan 13, 95 08:28:14 am
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> Hello, > I would like to make a tape on a Sun and restore it on FreeBSD, I tried: > tar cvf /dev/rst0 on Sun > tar xvf /dev/rst0 on FreeBSD but It didn't work. > Note that the following is ok: > tar cvf /dev/rst0 on FreeBSD > tar xvf /dev/rst0 on FreeBSD > I didn't try yet (will it work?) > tar cvf /dev/rst8 on Sun > tar xvf /dev/rst0 on FreeBSD This is what I've done in the past, and it worked fine. However, I didn't use the Sun drive on my FreeBSD box. I have a wt-type drive (Archive VP150e external). The Sun was using an Archive Viper 150 SCSI. This shouldn't make any difference, though. The tape format is the same.
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