Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 12:59:40 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: lindgren@istudio.no (Simon Lindgren) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Magnetic Tape Q Message-ID: <199612071859.MAA11522@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961207165308.00ba0354@istudio.no> from Simon Lindgren at "Dec 7, 96 04:53:10 pm"
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In a previous message, Simon Lindgren said: > I have a Seagate CTT8000 SCSI internal magtape unit, which I would > like to use to backup my FreeBSD 2.1.6 system. > > I am also quite lost at figuring out how to mount it (do I need to?). > I can use the "mt" utility to query it, and make it go "buzz" and rewind > and such, but writing to it is far away. Disklabel, then newfs, then mount > is the procedure I am currently trying to find info on, but I'm also > uncertain this has anything to do with using tapes. > > I would greatly appreciate an answer (or pointers to such). You don't mount it. Write to the raw device: dump 0Bbuf 2000000 20 /dev/rst0 / or tar -cvf /dev/rst0 / or cat or cpio or whatever. Paul. -- Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world. Everyone thinks he has enough. -Descartes, 1637
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