Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 02:15:31 +0400 (MSD) From: Andrew Maltsev <am@amsoft.ru> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape backup technique Message-ID: <199804012215.CAA01239@amsoft.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403123329.10860A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at "Apr 3, 98 12:34:29 pm"
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> > 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. Of course I'm using `mt' to rewind and jump over the files, but I see no command to get tape position. > > 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. The streamer does compression. So what is number of blocks? And yet another question - what to do if 0-level dump doesn't fit to one tape? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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