From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 10:16:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA29969 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:16:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA29959 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:16:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA00465; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 19:14:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199610041714.TAA00465@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: Tape drive problems? maybe? In-Reply-To: from Tim Pushor at "4. Oct. 96 8:36:19" To: timp@orion.ab.ca (Tim Pushor) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 19:14:46 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am running FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE and have just bought a shiny new > Exabyte 8505XLI tape drive. I am attempting to back up several filesystems > as different tape files. e.g. > > cd /somewhere ; tar cf /dev/nrst0 * > cd /somewhere/else ; tar cf /dev/nrst0 * > > I have done this before with other UNIXes. > > Now I am attempting to restore these directories (actually just verify > that this is happening) with: > mt rewind > tar tf /dev/nrst0 > filelist.1 > tar tf /dev/nrst0 > filelist.2 Try: tar tf /dev/nrst0 > filelist.1 tar tf /dev/nrst0 > /dev/null tar tf /dev/nrst0 > filelist.2 I found with my Wangtek that the tape driver has problems with EOF marks. mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf doesn't work at all (for me) -- usually the SCSI bus locks. > Does anybody know what is going on? No, but the above works for me. :-) Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de