From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 21 18:47:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06435 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 18:47:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06420 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 18:47:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28838 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:48:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199812220248.VAA28838@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Dumping to Jaz Disk To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:48:11 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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