Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:41:35 +0200 From: Stevan Tiefert <stevan-tiefert@kabelmail.de> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: small question about tape-based dumps Message-ID: <1255776095.4571.6.camel@x1-6-00-11-09-00-e4-00.search.b.superkabel.de> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90910161943o7695d436wed8b8a69d92ef994@mail.gmail.com> References: <1255727601.4640.4.camel@x1-6-00-11-09-00-e4-00.search.b.superkabel.de> <20091016213732.GA61433@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <ade45ae90910161943o7695d436wed8b8a69d92ef994@mail.gmail.com>
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Am Freitag, den 16.10.2009, 20:43 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd: > Replies inline > > On 10/16/09, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: ----------8< snip, snap... ----------8< > > Something like mt fsf 1 will skip over the first dump file > > so you can write the second. mt fsf 2 will skip over two files, etc. > > That is dump files, not files within the dump. Each dump of a > > filesystem is one file. ----------8< snip, snap... ----------8< That means, that after ervery dump, the tape drive is automatically writing an EOF. It is not necessary to write with mt -f /dev/nsa0 weof the EOF again. > > Thanks for any input! > --TJ With regards Stevan Tiefert
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