From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 17:47:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19469 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 17:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from 208.16.24.125 (pn8-ppp-125.primary.net [208.16.24.125] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA19388 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 17:47:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from PresidentClintonsLawyer.UnitedStatesArmy.NET (unverified [204.238.179.111]) by mail.mfn.org (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Tue, 05 May 1998 19:29:17 -0500 Received: by PresidentClintonsLawyer.UnitedStatesArmy.NET with Microsoft Mail id <01BD785B.D013D680@PresidentClintonsLawyer.UnitedStatesArmy.NET>; Tue, 5 May 1998 19:27:16 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD785B.D013D680@PresidentClintonsLawyer.UnitedStatesArmy.NET> From: "J.A. Terranson" To: "Abraham J. Stephens" , "'Doug White'" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Colorado 120 QIC tape drives. Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 19:27:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When doing this I get DUMP: bad sblock magic number DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. ?????????????? ?????????????? ?????????????? > Could anyone provide instructions for backing up with a QIC 80 tape drive. > how do I format tapes? then how do I use them? You shouldn't have to format the tapes, just pipe dump to /dev/rft and off you go. See the ft man page for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message