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Date:      Thu, 16 May 1996 20:48:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: errros on making floppies
Message-ID:  <199605161848.UAA09223@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199605160954.LAA01175@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 16, 96 11:54:19 am

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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.)

Tss. Just checked out the restore man page and indeed there is the
's' option. I just never noticed.... ;-) and always used 'mt'.

While we are at it: how does one verify a 'dump'? Is there an easy
option for restore that I also overlooked?

> cheers, J"org
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