Subject: Re: Best backup medium/device for NetBSD?
To: Michael bartosh <bartosh@tamu.edu>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/25/1999 21:57:42
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Michael bartosh wrote:

> A workgroup server is  Quadra 950 running A/UX. Quite a cool machine! 
> Running a finder and all on top of A/UX.... here is the dmesg output
> 
> st0 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <HP, HP35480A, 9 34> SCSI2 1/sequential removable
> st0: density code 0x13, variable blocks, write-enabled

That looks to be the same mechanism in my Hewlett-Packard Sure Store
Tape 5000, but different firmware. You can download flash upgrades
from HP's web site (for PC's, of course). Here's the dmesg output from
that:

st0 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <HP, HP35480A, T503> SCSI2 1/sequential removable
st0: drive empty

> It has a tape in it, btw. What's the next step?

Try to write to it with dd, or just dump a mounted file system:

	dump -OuB 4096000 -b16 /

/dev/nrst0 is the default tape device, so there's no need to specify a
device. You'll need the B4096000 is to override the default size,
which is way too small. See dump(1), restore(1), eject(1).