From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 07:17:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA05312 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 07:17:18 -0700 Received: from starfire.mn.org (starfire.skypoint.net [199.86.32.187]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA05305 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 07:17:11 -0700 From: john@starfire.mn.org Received: (from john@localhost) by starfire.mn.org (8.6.11/1.1) id JAA12371 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 09:17:09 -0500 Message-Id: <199510201417.JAA12371@starfire.mn.org> Subject: efficient use of large tapes To: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 09:17:08 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 313 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I really like using dump/restore, but I am not confident of putting multiple sets on one tape, yet is seems a shame to use four 2Gb tapes to back up a 1Gb disk. Does anyone have some neat solutions? John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417