Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:15:48 -0400 From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Formatting a tape? Message-ID: <ae4324ed0903190915u5a9ac68fw170f38354323e72e@mail.gmail.com>
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I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system. With one of the tapes, I can get "tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / ." to work. With all the other tapes, I can't. Is there some kind of formatting process that I need to do? I tried "mt fsf 1" from this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/backups-tapebackups.html This didn't seem to work, though. Any help is appreciated, Jaime -- "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -- Henry David Thoreau Tone of voice in email is misunderstood 50% of the time. Source: http://www.howtoweb.com/cgi-bin/insider.pl?zone=214061
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