Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:41:57 +0100 From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> To: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting a tape? Message-ID: <1237495317.977.0.camel@rivendell.lan> In-Reply-To: <ae4324ed0903190915u5a9ac68fw170f38354323e72e@mail.gmail.com> References: <ae4324ed0903190915u5a9ac68fw170f38354323e72e@mail.gmail.com>
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Try this : mt -f /dev/nsa0 rewind mt -f /dev/nsa0 weof 1 mt -f /dev/nsa0 rewind On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:15 -0400, Jaime wrote: > I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system. With one of the tapes, I > can get "tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / ." to work. With all the other > tapes, I can't. > > Is there some kind of formatting process that I need to do? I tried > "mt fsf 1" from this page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/backups-tapebackups.html > > This didn't seem to work, though. > > Any help is appreciated, > Jaime > -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jcigar@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52
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