From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 26 5:37:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526F637B424 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 05:37:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e8QCb5n14849; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:37:05 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <39D05AB9.270D295A@jazz-sax.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:37:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Eric Dannewitz Subject: RE: Dump and Sony DAT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Sep-00 Eric Dannewitz wrote: > I'd like to backup my server using my Sony DAT9000 and dump. I have 3 > partitions to backup. The tapedrive is 12 gigs, and the drive on the > server is only 8 gigs. > > So, I've tried dumping with the command....... > > dump -0au -f /dev/nrsa0 / > dump -0au -f /dev/nrsa0 /usr > dump -0au -f /dev/nrsa0 /var > > Are all the backups going to be made on the same tape? So I could > restore with little effort? Yes, they are. Since using the nrsa0-device (non-rewinding) the tape will stop in position. With rsa0 it would have rewound after each dump, thus overwriting whatever was there. > Thanks in advance! > > -- > "Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so." -- > Josh Billings > > Eric Dannewitz - Adventurer, saxophonist, good-timer (crook? quite > possibly), clarinetist, manic self-publicist, part-time > flautist(flutist?), macintosher, and often thought to be completely out > to lunch. > http://www.jazz-sax.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message