From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 3 12:35:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17114 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:35:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17098 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:34:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA10862; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:34:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andrew Maltsev cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape backup technique In-Reply-To: <199804011831.WAA00862@amsoft.ru> 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 On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Andrew Maltsev wrote: > Is there any good tutorial on doing tape backups? I have a lot of > unanswered questions and all the process is not clean for in > details.. > > Is it really impossible to know current tape position? Pretty much. Thus the existence of the `mt' command. > How to exclude some fast growing directories from backup (it seems > inpossible with dump)? I think you're stuck with tar in this case. > My SCSI HP SureStore (HP HP35480A T603) cannot reliably tell when the > tape finished to `dump -a'. What to do? use the -B and -b options ot specify number of blocks on the tape and the number of K in a block. See the manpage. > Is there any suitable software (flexible I mean) to do backups? May be > commercial.. Not that I know of for FreeBSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message