Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 14:05:06 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: berenmls@saers.com (Niklas Saers), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump -> multiple fs'es and computers Message-ID: <19990204200506.E299C45859@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Feb 1999 19:31:15 %2B0100." <199902041831.TAA00907@yedi.iaf.nl>
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In message <199902041831.TAA00907@yedi.iaf.nl>, Wilko Bulte wrote: } As Niklas Saers wrote... } > Hi. We've got a DLT-tapedrive and four FreeBSD-boxes which we want to take } > backup of. The DLT-tape can store 15 GB uncompressed, and our disks are } > 8+4+2+1=15 Gb in total, filled up about a third, so there should be more } > than enough. Now I wish to dump them all to the streamer and make dayly } > incrementals. BUT, dump seems only to be able to handle one filesystem pr } > tape. So I'm quite sure I've misunderstood something here. What programs } > should I use to dump all my file systems on my four computers over to the } > DLT-drive and run incrementals on them? } } Write a script that writes the multiple dumps on the nonrewinding tape device } . } Works just fine for me on my DLT. There's a tutorial on using dump for backups on my web site at http://www.pobox.com/~hamilton/dump.html which may be of some use as well. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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