Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!news.voicenet.com!omni2.voicenet.com!not-for-mail From: cprice@voicenet.com (Courtney A. Price) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Rewinding Tapes Date: 16 Feb 1996 07:39:42 -0500 Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4g1tue$re7@omni2.voicenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: omni2.voicenet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Can anyone tell me how BSDI names it's raw tape devices ? I am trying to use 'dump' to backup my machine to a DLT drive (/dev/rst0), but it keeps telling me that it has reached the end of the tape. I know that I should be able to use the 'mt' command, but 'mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind' doesn't seem to do anything. The man pages state that I need to specify the raw device, not the block. I have a script that dumps all my filesystems, I would like to ensure that the tape is rewound before beinging the dump. The version I am running is 2.0 Thanks, C. Price.