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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Bill Beavers <bbeavers@Moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us>
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Subject: Re: backing up to tape
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On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Bill Beavers wrote:

> I have tried to backup to my T4000s tape drive using the command
> 
> dump 0 /dev/st0

Should probably be something like:

dump -0 -f /dev/rst0 /usr

(to backup the /usr filesystem).

The argument to dump(8) is the name of the filesystem to dump, not the 
file to dump to.

> 
> but I get lots of data back ending with the dump being aborted.  What am 
> I doing wrong?  I have read the man page for dump, but still do not see 
> what I am missing.
> 
> 
> ........................................
> . Bill Beavers, Technology Coordinator .
> . Arch Ford Education Coop             .
> . bbeavers@moonraker.afsc.k12.ar.us    .
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> 
Nadav