Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:11:11 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting a tape? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903192110540.69828@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <ae4324ed0903190915u5a9ac68fw170f38354323e72e@mail.gmail.com> References: <ae4324ed0903190915u5a9ac68fw170f38354323e72e@mail.gmail.com>
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mt rewind should suffice. AFAIK DLT tapes doesn't need to be formatted On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Jaime wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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