I had a nasty surprise using ftape to dump my filesystems for archival right before repartitioning my hard drive. I wanted to let people know about this in case they were not already aware.
If you plan to dump several filesystems to one tape (that is, more than one session on a tape) you need to erase the tape using mt FIRST!!! Otherwise you will not be able to read any sessions beyond the first. There were only two sessions on my tape. Sadly, the second session contained the /usr filesystem, so I lost everything :( YMMV --- Key fingerprint = D6 A7 D7 8C 92 CB 42 FD 60 D5 62 1C D7 B9 EA 8E Ken Gaugler N6OSK Hybrid Networks, Inc. Cupertino, Calif. URL: www.hybrid.com (home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: users.aimnet.com/~keng) "The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."