Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:09:31 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> To: Lance Woodson <lance@woodson.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dumping Multiple Filesytems to 1 Tape? Message-ID: <Pine.HPX.4.05.10003091659570.13272-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: <38C82369.CE0A3837@woodson.com>
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Lance Woodson wrote: > Is there any way to dump multiple filesystems to the same tape? Sure, specify the "no-rewind" device (e.g., /etc/nrsa0 for a SCSI tape) as the device for the backup output, like dump -0 -f /dev/nrsa0 / dump -0 -f /dev/nrsa0 /usr mt -f /dev/nrsa0 rewind An end-of-file mark is written to the tape each time its device is closed to separate each file on the tape. The restore command has an option to specify the number of files to skip on the tape, so you can forward to the dump for a particular filesystem when you need to restore files. See the dump(8), restore(8), sa(4), and mt(1) man pages for more details. HTH, Guy Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer Mistakes in this message are likely due to a cat walking across my keyboard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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