From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 10:43:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zeus.dnt.md (zeus.dnt.md [195.138.124.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E896515068 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:43:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sl@dnt.md) Received: from localhost (sl@localhost) by zeus.dnt.md (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA20871 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:43:01 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:43:01 +0200 (EET) From: Veaceslav Revutchi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: help with tape backup needed Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have an HP35480A (sa0) tape drive using 90m tapes and I have a number of machines that I need to backup every night on this tape. Not whole file systems, just separate trees on each machine. Is there a way to put tars of these trees on the same tape one after the other and then access and recover them sequencialy? If I do for example: mt rewind mt fsf 1 tar cvz /bin tar cvz /sbin tar xvz /dev/nrsa0 I would only be able to recover the last tar archive writen on the tape. It seems like they are taped one over the other. any help appreciate. thank you. veaceslav. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message