Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 11:54:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: errros on making floppies Message-ID: <199605160954.LAA01175@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605151919.VAA00203@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "May 15, 96 09:19:46 pm"
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As Wilko Bulte wrote: > And along with restore a /sbin/mt is needed to do 'mt fsf' like things > on multi-dump tapes /usr/bin/mt (not /sbin/mt) is needed, but only in order to be able to adjust the density and blocksize setting of the tape drive. Skipping over pre-existing dump files is handled by the `s' flag to restore(8). (Do you wonder? After all, dump/restore are the recommended backup tools, and they do know how to handle mag tapes.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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