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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 1996 17:59:02 +1000 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To:        "Mark S. Velasquez" <msv@arisia.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960929175811.24973C-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960927193337.006ac718@207.100.94.5>

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On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Mark S. Velasquez wrote:

> 
>   Well, I know I'm asking a stupid question, but I'll do it anyways :
> 
> 
> This seems to work fine, however, when I do a "restore -if" to look at the
> tape, I can only see the first(/) filesystem I dumped.
> I'm doing an "mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1", etc. , to skip to the next dump-file
                           ^
You are skipping on a rewinding device.  You need to skip without 
rewinding :-)

Danny

> on the tape, but I never get to the next dump. Does mt work on FreeBSD 2.1.5
> with my tape drive ? or am I misremembering how to skip to the next
> dump-file ? Admittedly its been several years since I was involved with
> system backup.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Mark
> 
> 



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