Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 19:14:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: timp@orion.ab.ca (Tim Pushor) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape drive problems? maybe? Message-ID: <199610041714.TAA00465@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.961004082924.2560A-100000@rnd.orion.ab.ca> from Tim Pushor at "4. Oct. 96 8:36:19"
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> I am running FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE and have just bought a shiny new > Exabyte 8505XLI tape drive. I am attempting to back up several filesystems > as different tape files. e.g. > > cd /somewhere ; tar cf /dev/nrst0 * > cd /somewhere/else ; tar cf /dev/nrst0 * > > I have done this before with other UNIXes. > > Now I am attempting to restore these directories (actually just verify > that this is happening) with: > mt rewind > tar tf /dev/nrst0 > filelist.1 > tar tf /dev/nrst0 > filelist.2 Try: tar tf /dev/nrst0 > filelist.1 tar tf /dev/nrst0 > /dev/null tar tf /dev/nrst0 > filelist.2 I found with my Wangtek that the tape driver has problems with EOF marks. mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf <num> doesn't work at all (for me) -- usually the SCSI bus locks. > Does anybody know what is going on? No, but the above works for me. :-) Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de
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