From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 15:39:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA00262 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:39:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA00231; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:39:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199609192239.PAA00231@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SCSI Tape support ? To: tlayton@global-sol.com Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <32418789.760B@global-sol.com> from "Timothy P. Layton, Sr." at Sep 19, 96 12:48:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Timothy P. Layton, Sr. wrote: > > I am a new user of FreeBSD. I installed my system last night and have > had a good deal of success. I have an adaptec 1542 SCSI controller and > a HP SureStore 5000 DAT. I am using the dump command to do a level 0 > backup of all the file systems and it appears to work fine. > > I am trying to figure out how to show the index or catalog of what > I backed up on the tape. Any ideas ?? two ways, one interactive and one prints a list to the screen (really to stdout) "restore tf " prints the list "restore if " displays a prompt and you can "cd" around as if it was a disk. > > Also I am using a density of 61000 as an argument for the dump command. > I am assuming that this is the correct density for a 2 Gb DAT tape ? no, dont use desnity and tape length. these are for 9track tapes. use "b" and "B" which are "kB/dump record" and "dump records per tape" respectively. jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB