From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 06:31:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA15780 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 06:31:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from croute.com (ishm2.croute.com [199.97.106.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA15773 Mon, 15 Jan 1996 06:31:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from bldg1.croute.com by croute.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17700; Mon, 15 Jan 96 08:39:44 CST Received: from COMPUROUTE/SpoolDir by bldg1.croute.com (Mercury 1.13); Mon, 15 Jan 96 9:01:57 +600 Received: from SpoolDir by COMPUROUTE (Mercury 1.13); Mon, 15 Jan 96 9:01:39 +600 From: "Larry Dolinar" Organization: CompuRoute, Inc. To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 09:01:34 +600 CDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Dump/backup stuff Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Larry Dolinar" X-Pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-Id: Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Thus spake "Werner Griessl" (Mon, 15 Jan 1996): | > | > I finally got my 2GB tape drive running. I can successfully (I think) | > dump my / filesystem. I'd also like to append my /usr filesystem to the | > end of it as well. It's not clear to me as to how to do this. What I'm | > currently using is: | > | > dump 0f - / | gzip | dd of=/dev/rst0 bs=32k | > | > Is this what I should be using? Things appear to work. | > | > Also, what do I use to verify that what was written actually got written? | > Is there a sort of ls style listing I can get off of the tape? | > | > Thanks! | > | > -->Neil | > | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | > Synthcom System's homepage: http://www.synthcom.com/ | > Europa Upgrade, Synth patches (D-50, Xpander/Matrix 12), used gear pricelist | > | > | > | | Hi Neil, | | For a whole backup of your system you should do: | | mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind | dump 0usdf 200000 1000 /dev/nrst0 /dev/rwd0a # / | dump 0usdf 200000 1000 /dev/nrst0 /dev/rwd0e # /var | dump 0usdf 200000 1000 /dev/nrst0 /dev/rwd0f # /usr | mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind | | Note the 'n' in the tape-device, it means "non-rewindable" ! | and use the right disk-devices for your system. | | Hope this helps | Werner Using a Sony SDT-5000 (4-8GB) I used dump 0usdf 10240 61000 /dev/nrst0 etc. To access the "interior" dumps, use mt to position to the volume you want. I did have to play a little game with the control device to establish the higher density, but it was a one-time thing. hth, larry