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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!peerfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Can I use QIC-80 tapes on both FreeBSD and Linux? Date: 18 Nov 1996 04:52:58 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <56oq3a$pak@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <56ite7$fjh@news.gvsu.edu> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva2.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31192 comp.os.linux.misc:142316 In <56ite7$fjh@news.gvsu.edu>, behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) writes: >Hi all, > >I'm curious if I can back up something on my Linux machine at home onto a >QIC-80 tape, and bring it to work and restore it onto our FreeBSD box. >The man page to 'ft' on FreeBSD seems to suggest that it uses a >proprietary format to the tapes... or does that only refer to the fact >that you can't bring tapes between DOS and FreeBSD? Try it and see, using something like tar. You can use tar to span floppies now, a fix for the floppy disk driver was mentioned a couple weeks ago.