From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 14:37:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA0337B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailav.tor1.inquent.com (mail.inquent.com [216.6.14.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2618E43E4A for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:37:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad.morland@inquent.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailav.tor1.inquent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A851025A for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:37:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from downtown (unknown [10.0.2.31]) by mailav.tor1.inquent.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 106B610248 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:37:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <010501c27a12$fbe60130$1f02000a@downtown> From: "Chad Morland" To: Subject: dump help Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:35:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Take a look at the estimated number of tapes needed below. Now, I'm not sure why it would need almost 1500 DLT IV tapes to backup 65G of data. Can someone possibly explain this to me? I am having a hell of a time trying to backup this data. I have hardware compression turned on on the drive as well. backup# mt rewind backup# dump 0bfun 126 /dev/nsa0 /dev/vinum/striped DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Oct 22 17:11:19 2002 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/vinum/striped to /dev/nsa0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 84906026 tape blocks on 1498.69 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: Closing /dev/nsa0 DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 backup# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 302350 50860 227302 18% / /dev/da0s1f 5426350 614662 4377580 12% /usr /dev/da0s1e 2015918 2068 1852578 0% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /dev/vinum/striped 454465653 64241886 353866515 15% /backup -CM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message