Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:48:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Dumping to Jaz Disk Message-ID: <199812220248.VAA28838@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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I've got a SCSI Jaz drive hooked on my PC running FreeBSD 2.2.7. It seems that it would be a very convienent way to backup my HD. It works well for the Win95 partition. A Jaz disk is of a particularly convienent size in that its capacity is roughly about that of my FreeBSD partition, about 1 GB. However, I'm not exactly sure how to get multiple dumps on a Jaz disk. On a tape, you can tell the device not to rewind after the first two dumps and simply write them sequentially. A disk is more of a RAM device and something like that does not seem as intuitively obvious. How do I get multiple dumps on a single Jaz drive without having it clobber the previous dump? How could I use 'restore' to access them if I did? This is also of interest since it would be nice (almost a necesity, Jaz disks are not free) to keep incremental dumps on a single disk. How do people out there who use Jaz drives as backup devices do this? Thanks for any help. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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