From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 25 13: 5:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88D9715434 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:05:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 29546 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Mar 1999 20:55:25 -0000 Message-ID: <19990325205525.29545.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 06:55:25 +1000 From: Greg Black To: "Ray Seals" Cc: "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: Re: Dump and Tape Density Settings References: <000701be76e8$1e147520$0a021eac@rseals.midwestis.com> In-reply-to: <000701be76e8$1e147520$0a021eac@rseals.midwestis.com> of Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:51:31 CST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > dump 0nuf /dev/nrst0 / > > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Mar 25 11:24:21 1999 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd0a (/) to /dev/nrst0 > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 328337 tape blocks on 8.44 tape(s). > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > > Then in a minute or so, it asks for another tape. > > I know this is due to the tape density or block size settings for my backup > script or is it possible that my tape is not formatted correctly? These > were not new tapes when I got them. Can anyone explain or show me were I > can read some more about this? Try the `a' flag to dump; if that fails with your hardware, then use the `B' flag. The man page for dump explains these. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message