From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 25 20:17:47 2004 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 AA1B116A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:17:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352F843D1D for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:17:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i9PKHdp25344; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:17:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200410252017.i9PKHdp25344@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: mav@wastegate.net (doug reynolds) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:17:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <417A7A56.4060407@wastegate.net> from "doug reynolds" at Oct 23, 2004 11:35:50 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump/restore indexing question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:17:47 -0000 > > I have freebsd 4.10 on one of my production servers. > > I have been using the dump/restore combo to backup my drive, and I run a > nightly dump -9 on the /home partition, and most of the dump -9s are > dumped to a single tape since I don't have daily acs to swap the tapes > more than once a month or so. > > I'm wondering if there is a utility that can index the dumps on a tape > and list the time/date for each dump on the tape. I looked through the > dump/restore/mt man pages, google'd, and looked though the ports > without much luck. Well, you could do a 'restore -t' on the tape and pipe the output to a file. You would have to reposition the tape and then run the restore on it. Then you might have to sort it to suit yourself. Lack of a good index feature is a major deficiency of dump/restore from my point of view. Also, I hope you do an occasional dump 0 and not all just dump 9. ////jerry > > please CC this to my email, as I am not subscribed to the list anymore.. > > thanx in advance. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >