Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 14:07:12 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Jeff Kletsky <Jeff@Wagsky.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-session dump on single tape Message-ID: <19980808140712.A26139@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <l03110701b1f189096690@[192.168.6.3]>; from "Jeff Kletsky" on Fri Aug 7 22:07:20 GMT 1998 References: <l03110701b1f189096690@[192.168.6.3]>
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In the last episode (Aug 07), Jeff Kletsky said: > which seems to work fine for tar and a single dump, but I have not been > able to determine the "magic" required to place multiple dump sessions on a > single tape. > > I have tried the following, then using restore -t, restore -t -s 1, restore > -t -s 2, with mt rewind and mt fsf thrown in liberally and in various > combinations to see if the dump is there. > > mt erase > dump -0au / > > works, > but any of the following seem to leave only a single session on the tape > > mt erase > dump -0au / > dump -0au /var dump defaults to /dev/rst0, which is a "rewind-on-close device". Try mt rewind dump 0auf /dev/nrst0 / dump 0auf /dev/nrst0 /var mt rewind A quick way to see how many files are on a tape (and the blocksize and total size of each file) is to run "tcopy /dev/rst0". -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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