From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 4 21:16:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA02449 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:16:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from Glock.COM (root@glock.com [198.82.228.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA02444 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:16:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by Glock.COM (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA07075 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 00:16:46 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199603050516.AAA07075@Glock.COM> Subject: backing up to removable media To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 00:16:45 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Does anyone on this list use a Zip Drive, Jaz Drive, or some other form of removeable media for doing backups? I recently purchased a SyQuest EZ135 Drive and I want to do backups to it using it as a raw character device (in this case /dev/rsd3). Anyhow, when I backup something that's smaller than the size of a cartridge, or do a multiple cartridge dump, I end up with only a portion of the last cartridge used (both under dump's scheme, and tar -M's scheme). Is there any way to get either of these programs to seek past a specifiable number of bytes before writing, and to output the number of bytes offset of the dump just completed before exiting? If you have an alternate scheme, please let me know. Thanks in advance! -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/