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Subject: Re: dump restore
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 3:51 pm, Oliver Breuninger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards.
>
> This should possible, butg I've been see a solution for this until
> yet.
>
> regards

You know that you can split dump files during the dump
See man dump for the -B option.
When you restore, restore will ask for the next volume if you have 
split it using -B.  No need to join up again.

Note dont use -B and -a together in a dump.  -a will override -B

What are you trying to do?