From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 10:57: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spits.calcasieu.com (spits.calcasieu.com [209.99.46.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FCDD150A5 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:56:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dread@calcasieu.com) Received: from coypu.austin.calcasieu.com (coypu [192.168.170.33]) by spits.calcasieu.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA04749; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:55:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dread@calcasieu.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:55:44 -0600 (CST) Organization: Calcasieu Lumber From: Don Read To: Veaceslav Revutchi Subject: RE: help with tape backup needed Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13-Jan-00 Veaceslav Revutchi wrote: > > 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 cvz /bin /sbin /usr/bin ... Regards, -- Don Read dread@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- No Coffee No Peace. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message