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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need help backing up system. Date: 29 Jun 1996 17:32:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4r3pbu$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31D442EA.167EB0E7@halfdome.engr.ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E michael white <white@halfdome.engr.ucdavis.edu> wrote: > Sorry about this, but my mind is fried and I can't remember where > any of this information is kept. I want to back up my system. I > have an iomega DITTO 420 tape drive (uses formatted QIC 80 tapes) > that is daisy chained in with my 2 floppys. The system sees the > device on bootup (I think it is ft0). Now what I want to do is make > a boot floppy with a kernel that will be able to see at least my > hard drives and the tape device, and a backup of my entire system > (so that if it crashes, I can restore everything). There's already a fixit floppy, but it lacks the /sbin/ft command which is required to speak to the floppy tape. However, i think there's enough free space to stuff it onto the floppy. It's most likely also missing the device nodes for the floppy tape. (This is a little more tricky, since the device nodes reside in /dev, but this is inside the MFS root file system. Use mknod to creat it manually from the fixit shell.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)