From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 12:03:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18410 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:03:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.pacificnet.com.mx (mail.pacificnet.com.mx [167.114.23.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18405 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:03:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abehar@mail.pacificnet.com.mx) Received: from localhost (abehar@localhost) by mail.pacificnet.com.mx (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA28797 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:37:49 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 12:37:49 -0700 (MST) From: Angel Behar Rodriguez To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Compression on dump. 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 Im running 2.1.7.1 with an SCSI HP 5000i BU tape. The tape drive supports 2 GB or 4Gb with compression, my problems starts when I want to dump my a little bit more 2Gb /usr partition but dump ask me for 41 tapes!! Can you help me with this I supouse that I making a mistake. Thanks. mail# dump 0uf /dev/rst0 /usr DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Feb 27 12:26:45 1998 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0s1f (/usr) to /dev/rst0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 2146887 tape blocks on -41.91 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: Closing /dev/rst0 DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message