Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:07:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Andrew Maltsev <am@amsoft.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape backup technique Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403190645.11299H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804012215.CAA01239@amsoft.ru>
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On Thu, 2 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. > > Of course I'm using `mt' to rewind and jump over the files, but I see no > command to get tape position. Why do you need it, btw? > > 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? Good question. You'll have to comprimise. > And yet another question - what to do if 0-level dump doesn't fit to one > tape? dump will ask for another tape. 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
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