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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!boulder!emu.fsl.noaa.gov!kelly From: kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 4mm DAT backup dump? Date: 5 Feb 1996 22:57:31 GMT Organization: Forecast Systems Laboratory Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4f620r$4l7@peabody.colorado.edu> References: <4es861$pvk@news.wco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: emu.fsl.noaa.gov In article <4es861$pvk@news.wco.com>, <jf2@rf.net> wrote: >I have a HP 4.0 GB DAT drive that I want to put in my FreeBSD box but I >don't know how to do a dump to it. I can find no info on feet or bpi. Your modern tape drive should be able to detect end-of-tape, so you don't need the feet or bpi options. Just use the block size and number of block options. With my DAT, I use: dump <level>nubBf 64 9999999 /dev/rst1 <filesystem> where <level> is 0..9 and <filesystem> is the filesystem I'm dumping. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA The Enterprise is captured by a vastly superior alien intelligence which does not put them on trial. -- One of 46 things that never happen on Star Trek