Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:34:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Andrew Maltsev <am@amsoft.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape backup technique Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403123329.10860A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804011831.WAA00862@amsoft.ru>
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On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Andrew Maltsev wrote: > Is there any good tutorial on doing tape backups? I have a lot of > unanswered questions and all the process is not clean for in > details.. > > Is it really impossible to know current tape position? Pretty much. Thus the existence of the `mt' command. > How to exclude some fast growing directories from backup (it seems > inpossible with dump)? I think you're stuck with tar in this case. > My SCSI HP SureStore (HP HP35480A T603) cannot reliably tell when the > tape finished to `dump -a'. What to do? use the -B and -b options ot specify number of blocks on the tape and the number of K in a block. See the manpage. > Is there any suitable software (flexible I mean) to do backups? May be > commercial.. Not that I know of for FreeBSD. 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
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