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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:39:10 -0700
From: Flemming Froekjaer <flemming@froekjaer.org>
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Flemming Froekjaer wrote:

> I'm trying to do a dump to a 35 GB DLT drive. The filesystem is only
> about 1.6 GB, but dump claimes it needs around 40 tapes for the backup.
> What am I doing wrong?

Next time I'll actualy read the man page before asking.
the -a switch did the trick.

\Flemming


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