From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 2 12:37:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05250 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:37:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05242 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:36:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA19200; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:36:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:36:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Angel Behar Rodriguez cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compression on dump. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Angel Behar Rodriguez wrote: > Im using 2.1.7.1 and dump does not have the "a" option. Do you think I can > upgrade the dump command? if this is possible how can I do it ? > Thanks. You could build a new vesion of dump from 2.2.x, or just calculate the B and b options. For 2 gig tapes we use this (but it may be wrong): rdump 0uBbf 2000000 10 my.tapeserver.edu:/dev/nrst0 / Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message