From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 4 11:10:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04717 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:10:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04712 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:10:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20503; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:10:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199902041910.MAA20503@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: dump -> multiple fs'es and computers In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19990204130133.019e83a0@pop.saers.com> from Niklas Saers at "Feb 4, 99 01:01:33 pm" To: berenmls@saers.com (Niklas Saers) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:10:46 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: chad@DCFinc.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-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Niklas Saers wrote: > Hi. We've got a DLT-tapedrive and four FreeBSD-boxes which we want to take > backup of. The DLT-tape can store 15 GB uncompressed, and our disks are > 8+4+2+1=15 Gb in total, filled up about a third, so there should be more > than enough. Now I wish to dump them all to the streamer and make dayly > incrementals. BUT, dump seems only to be able to handle one filesystem pr > tape. So I'm quite sure I've misunderstood something here. What programs > should I use to dump all my file systems on my four computers over to the > DLT-drive and run incrementals on them? You want to make use of the "no-rewind" version of the device. For example, here's how my machine dumps it's filesystems to a SCSI tape. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= #!/bin/sh # Dump the whole system to the DAT drive /sbin/dump -au -0 -b 32 -f /dev/nrst0 / /sbin/dump -au -0 -b 32 -f /dev/nrst0 /usr /sbin/dump -au -0 -b 32 -f /dev/nrst0 /var /sbin/dump -au -0 -b 32 -f /dev/nrst0 /home /sbin/dump -au -0 -b 32 -f /dev/rst0 /chad -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= It's a shell script, run as root. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message