From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 11:56:20 2003 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 2259737B401 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop018.verizon.net (pop018pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB3243F85 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:56:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by pop018.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030721185613.HGXA11703.pop018.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:56:13 -0500 Message-ID: <3F1C3749.4080203@mac.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:56:09 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030721143437.00aad5b0@mail.anything-inc.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030721143437.00aad5b0@mail.anything-inc.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop018.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:56:13 -0500 Subject: Re: Dump from cron job, need to change tape X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:56:20 -0000 Bob Collins wrote: > I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and > cron and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND > allow user intervention to change the tape. Unfortunately, I believe that is correct, at least for normal tape drives (ones without a tape-silo mechanism or robotic jukebox). > I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The > tape runs to the end, issues the end of tape, and then dump fails. I > would like to be able to change the tape and get a backup. > > Do I need to use some other software, or am I missing a switch or > something somewhere? Run a level-0 backup by hand and swap tapes manually as needed. Then set up an automated level-1 backup via cron, which will hopefully give you a week or two of incremental backups per tape. Or get a larger capacity tape drive, not that such things are free. -- -Chuck