From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 18:47:01 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 6466D16A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:47:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A68943D36 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:47:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 3045D55; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:46:56 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: "DG" References: <003601c3c37a$99ac05c0$5401a8c0@borg.fielden.com.au> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 15 Dec 2003 21:46:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <003601c3c37a$99ac05c0$5401a8c0@borg.fielden.com.au> Message-ID: <44llpdh42o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to append multiple dumps to single tape X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:47:01 -0000 "DG" writes: > On the subject of multiple dumps, how does one append several dumps to the > same tape? The dump man page does not seem to indicate an 'append' option. > > I have a SCSI DAT drive (DDS2) if that makes any difference to it's > appendability. I thought that's what the nsa (as opposed to sa(4)) device was for... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"