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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 23:49:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu>
Subject: Re: scsi tape problem (with dump)
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To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
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Speicfy the -a flag to dump to force it ao "auto-size" the tape.  This
makes dump wait for the tape drive to send a true end of tape before
stopping.

Joe Clarke

On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Jan B. Koum  wrote:

> 
> 	Hello all,
> 
> 	I just replaced the tape in the scsi driver and now I am having
> problems doing dump of /usr filesystem. The tape is 4Gig and user is
> 350MB. Funny thing is, I just did level 0 backups a few days ago and
> everything was fine. Any ideas? (Please cc: me). Thanks,
> 
> -- Yan
> 
> Jan Koum                  jkb@best.com |  "Turn up the lights; I don't want
> www.FreeBSD.org --  The Power to Serve |   to go home in the dark."
> 
> > 
> > 
> > # mt -f /dev/rst0 erase ; mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind ; mt -f /dev/rst0
> > retension
> > # /sbin/dump -3u -f /dev/nrst0 /usr
> >   DUMP: Date of this level 3 dump: Mon Jul 13 19:37:40 1998
> >   DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Sun Jul  5 01:50:58 1998
> >   DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0s1f (/usr) to /dev/nrst0
> >   DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> >   DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
> >   DUMP: estimated 119887 tape blocks on 3.08 tape(s).
> >   DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
> >   DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
> >   DUMP: Closing /dev/nrst0
> >   DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2
> >   DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no")
> > 
> > 
> > 	dump thinks this tape is not big enough to fit 350MB
> > 
> 
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