Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:32:51 +0000 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HP SureStore T20 Message-ID: <00110718325103.02691@marbsd.tninet.se> In-Reply-To: <20001107163917.B83797@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> References: <3A011DE0.9FA0FF18@polbox.com> <20001107163917.B83797@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
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On Tuesday 07 November 2000 13:39, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * svga <svga@polbox.com> [20001102 11:35]: > =>Oops, I made a mistake! > => > =>Is it possible to backup 20GB to a single tape (Travan 10GB native) > =>using dump? > > If you enable compression but I've never managed to achieve that. But on > this list recently someone showed how to pass the output of dump to gzip > then to tape...pls try to search for it > > > -Wash not sure that will help much, there is a diminishing rate of return, try compressing mp3 files for example but..... dump 0af - / | gzip -9 | dd of=/dev/rsa0 bs=10k was suggested by Mike Meyer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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