Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:18:26 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Veaceslav Revutchi <sl@dnt.md> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with tape backup needed Message-ID: <20000113161826.B99955@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001132030400.20466-100000@zeus.dnt.md>; from "Veaceslav Revutchi" on Thu Jan 13 20:43:01 GMT 2000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001132030400.20466-100000@zeus.dnt.md>
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In the last episode (Jan 13), Veaceslav Revutchi said: > 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 The default tape device for tar is '/dev/rsa0', which rewinds after each tar run. Try using "tar zcvf /dev/nrsa0 /bin", and add a "mt rewind" as the end of your backup run. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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