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Date:      Thu, 16 May 1996 11:54:19 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: errros on making floppies
Message-ID:  <199605160954.LAA01175@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605151919.VAA00203@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "May 15, 96 09:19:46 pm"

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As Wilko Bulte wrote:

> And along with restore a /sbin/mt is needed to do 'mt fsf' like things
> on multi-dump tapes

/usr/bin/mt (not /sbin/mt) is needed, but only in order to be able to
adjust the density and blocksize setting of the tape drive.

Skipping over pre-existing dump files is handled by the `s' flag to
restore(8).  (Do you wonder?  After all, dump/restore are the
recommended backup tools, and they do know how to handle mag tapes.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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