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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!ns2.qnis.net!not-for-mail From: phil@ns.qnis.net (Phil Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Can I use QIC-80 tapes on both FreeBSD and Linux? Date: 19 Nov 1996 18:02:17 -0000 Organization: QuadraNet Internet Services Lines: 24 Message-ID: <56ssn9$e91@ns.qnis.net> References: <56ite7$fjh@news.gvsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns.qnis.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31277 comp.os.linux.misc:142700 In article <56ite7$fjh@news.gvsu.edu>, Matt Behrens <behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu> wrote: >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? > >Thanks! I'm sure that if you used some sort of platform-independant method of backing up, like dump(8) or tar(1), you shouldn't have a problem with reading the tape from Linux, FreeBSD, or any other operating system that will read the tape drive. I've heard of a few commercial tar programs for Windows NT, even. -p -- Phil Jensen QuadraNet Internet Services Network Administrator / Manager http://www.qnis.net UNIX -is- user-friendly! Its just picky about who its friends are. Check out my Bourne Shell Tips Page! http://www.qnis.net/~phil/faq.html