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Date:      8 May 2000 23:43:04 +0200
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked
Message-ID:  <8f7cd8$1sgv$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <200005051816.LAA80655@apollo.backplane.com> <61326.957793693@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>

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Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> wrote:

> Given that having things move around in the base system carries with it
> varying degrees of pain, can you guys just explain why this is actually
> necessary?

Your tape drive has a quirk but no entry yet in the kernel quirk
table, (or you simply use non-default settings for your backups
for some good reason), and you need to manually set the block size,
density, or some such before you can read back your backup.

(Is the EOT model an issue for reading, too?)

> Didn't someone point out a way to use restore in the absence
> of mt?

You can use restore's "-s" flag to position to a particular file.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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