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Jerry McAllister wrote:

> This 'rest of the disk' should be divided up into chunks that can
> be dump(8)ed to one backup media if possible.   Otherwise you will
> get sloppy and not do backups because it is harder.  Since there is a 

What kind of nonsense is this?  I've never heard about such an advise, 
and it doesn't make sense to me.  Surely dumping a filesystem to 
multiple tapes isn't more, most likely less, effort than dumping n 
filesystems to one tape each.  The only case this doesn't hold is when 
you're using amanda, but that's hardly a home setup, and comes with a 
special backup discipline anyways.  Actually, I doubt that many people 
use tape backup at home, considering how outrageously expensive the 
stuff is, and the inexpensiveness of usb disks these days, which are a 
lot easier to handle than tapes.

mkb.