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Date:      Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:53:27 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Adam Bottchen <bottchen@mail.utexas.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Colorado Tape Backup System...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971222215222.7705V-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <349DCB37.7809F741@mail.utexas.edu>

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On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Adam Bottchen wrote:

>     I recently installed Free-BSD v2.2.5 on my P90.  I have a Colorado
> Jumbo 250 Tape Drive already on the system.  I had backed up alot of
> data on some tapes under Win 95 version of the Colorado backup
> software.  I was wondering, with all of the configuration possible with
> Free-BSD, is there a way for me to restore from those tapes?  Is there a
> Free-BSD program that can read the format used under the generic
> Colorado Tape Backup software?  I tryed the command "ft | tar -tv" to
> try and get info on the tape.  I got the messages:

You forgot to specify the source for tar.  You need to have it read from
standard input instead of the default tape device.  Try this command:

ft | tar tf -

See ft(8) for info.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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