Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:08:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive and DUMP Message-ID: <19980910120824.A22026@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199809101505.LAA08210@spook.navinet.net>; from "Forrest Aldrich" on Thu Sep 10 10:55:37 GMT 1998 References: <199809101505.LAA08210@spook.navinet.net>
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In the last episode (Sep 10), Forrest Aldrich said: > > I'm having a bit of difficulty trying to get a decent system dump on tape > with FreeBSD-2.2.7-STABLE. > > Using the same tapes that I use in my Solaris system, I perform: > > /sbin/dump 0uf /dev/rst0 /usr/local > > But for some reason, it thinks the tape is very small. I have > 4.0gig-capable tapes. I've > tried specifying the tape length (feet) and that doesn't make a difference. > Dump will indicate > something like 49.x tapes required for the dump of /usr/local which is less > than 2gig :) The 'a' dump option will tell dump not to use a hardcoded tape length, and just stop when EOM is reached. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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