From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 17:19:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (sparge.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B77C37B416 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:19:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4C3274B7195; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 19:19:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:13:05 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Noor Dawod Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011119151303.B7781@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Noor Dawod , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Noor Dawod (noor@comrax.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I want to buy a SCSI tape backup (DAT) for our server. Can anyone recommend > a good one? fast and reliable that works under FreeBSD. I think just about any SCSI tape drive will work under FreeBSD. I've used a couple different types of SCSI drives (DAT, DLT) under FreeBSD and found it to be utterly painless to set them up. > While we're at it, how do you back up to one of these tape drives? In believe FreeBSD recognizes a SCSI tape drive as /dev/nrsa0. Most of the tape backup programs (certainly dump, maybe tar and cpio) use the correct device by default. The mt command (man mt) is also useful for manipulating the tape drive (checking the status, positioning the tape to the right file, rewinding or retensioning the tape, etc). -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message