From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 19 12:50:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA13627 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA13602 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA11494; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:46:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:46:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" Message-Id: <199706191946.OAA11494@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, fbsdlist@federation.addy.com Subject: Re: dump of entire disk X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Is there a way to have dump backup an entire disk? I have a disk set up > with three filesystems (/, /usr, and /var) and I can only get dump to send > out a single filesystem. I'd rather not use three separate tapes for each > backup. > > Sure, just use the no rewind tape device, probably /dev/nrst0 (for a SCSI-interfaced tape). If you use restore, you will have to use mt fsf to get to the right part of the tape, though. Bud Dodson -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790