From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 00:15:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3E716A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 00:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop3.mail-relay.com (mail.mail-relay.com [194.49.77.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AF243D48 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 00:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ob@breuninger.org) Received: from pop3.mail-relay.com (localhost.pop3.mail-relay.com [127.0.0.1]) by pop3.mail-relay.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3C7FKuj016801 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:15:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from breuninger.org (ob@localhost)i3C7FJl0016800; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:15:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: pop3.mail-relay.com: ob owned process doing -bs Message-ID: <407A4203.5060100@breuninger.org> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:15:15 +0200 From: Oliver Breuninger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20040105 X-Accept-Language: en, de-DE MIME-Version: 1.0 To: anubis References: <407A2E75.8010803@breuninger.org> <200404121706.40911.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200404121706.40911.anubis357@optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump restore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ob@breuninger.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:15:24 -0000 Hello Anubis, if I have dump-seesions from tape, and I want to write parts of it on DVDs. But I'm interested in to have each part as an correct dump file. regards anubis wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 3:51 pm, Oliver Breuninger wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards. >> >>This should possible, butg I've been see a solution for this until >>yet. >> >>regards > > > You know that you can split dump files during the dump > See man dump for the -B option. > When you restore, restore will ask for the next volume if you have > split it using -B. No need to join up again. > > Note dont use -B and -a together in a dump. -a will override -B > > What are you trying to do? > -- Oliver Breuninger X.509v3 CA Distribution Point http://ca.breuninger.org