Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 16:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005081627050.11754-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <8f7cd8$1sgv$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On 8 May 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> wrote: > > > Given that having things move around in the base system carries with it > > varying degrees of pain, can you guys just explain why this is actually > > necessary? > > Your tape drive has a quirk but no entry yet in the kernel quirk > table, (or you simply use non-default settings for your backups > for some good reason), and you need to manually set the block size, > density, or some such before you can read back your backup. > > (Is the EOT model an issue for reading, too?) No. > > > Didn't someone point out a way to use restore in the absence > > of mt? > > You can use restore's "-s" flag to position to a particular file. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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