From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 14:18:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACBD014EFD for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:18:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA00318; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:18:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:18:26 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Veaceslav Revutchi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with tape backup needed Message-ID: <20000113161826.B99955@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from "Veaceslav Revutchi" on Thu Jan 13 20:43:01 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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