From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 8 20:14:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4743C16A41F for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:14:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDACD13C4B0 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:14:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) id l68KE1fM024261; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:14:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:14:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Dinesh Pandian Message-ID: <20070708201401.GA15336@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3ea3ac8f0707081128n4ec5f2f6o6ffb0c4745a3008b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3ea3ac8f0707081128n4ec5f2f6o6ffb0c4745a3008b@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: non-interactive dump X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:14:17 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 09), Dinesh Pandian said: > Hello guys, > quick question.. > > Is there a way to tell dump to do it's working without > it asking "Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no")" > everytime it changes mount points? How else can it tell when you've swapped in new media? If it automatically continued it would just overwrite the previous segment. I'm assuming you're dumping to some removable media, like multiple USB hard drives or something, that you plug in one at a time? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com