From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 12:29:42 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 4041F37B404 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A8C43F93 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:29:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([4.46.1.67]) by out005.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030721192940.NJMG20032.out005.verizon.net@duron.pcmedx.com>; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:29:40 -0500 Received: from mike (mike.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.244]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D13BA9EA; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:29:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <005501c34fbe$7bb1db60$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> From: "Mike Maltese" To: References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030721143437.00aad5b0@mail.anything-inc.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:30:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [4.46.1.67] at Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:29:40 -0500 cc: Bob Collins 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 19:29:42 -0000 I've also looked into this (I have a DDS2 autoloader), but unfortunately dump doesn't support multiple volumes. Because my /, /usr and /var partitions will fit on one tape, I use dump for those. For everything else (i.e. large file shares) I just use tar with the -M flag when doing a manual backup. This will cause tar to prompt for a new tape when it has reached the end of the current tape. This is the best solution I could come up with, although it make incrementals a bit tough (see the -g flag under man tar). If my system disk crashes, I can be reasonably confident that I'll have a working system after restoring those parts from a dump, and tar seems to work fine for regular files. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Collins" To: Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:35 AM Subject: Dump from cron job, need to change tape > Sorry to repost, but wanted to post with a subject line. > > >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. > > > >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? > > > >TIA > >Bob > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"