From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 1 23:04:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA20902 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 May 1995 23:04:07 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA20891 for ; Mon, 1 May 1995 23:03:48 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA01068; Tue, 2 May 1995 08:02:59 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA02054; Tue, 2 May 1995 08:02:58 +0200 Message-Id: <199505020602.IAA02054@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Warner Losh cc: Mark Murray , "Mike O'Brien" , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Compress dumps? Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 08:02:58 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > : Yup. I have QIC 150's and 1.2GB of disk. I would not do it any other way. > : I do it by constructing a pipline, but if you have some other ideas I'll > : be interested! > > How do you handle the 'I want to write more than one tape' problem? With great difficulty. :-( I usually just do incremental backups, but occaisionally I need to do a level 1 or 2 which overflows the tape. Then I step in and manually back up relevant pieces, or decide I really don't _need_ do backup the obj subtree or suchlike. That is the only real pain. Doesn't happen often though. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200