From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 29 13:26:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA16246 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:26:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from neptune.ajc.state.net (neptune.ajc.state.net [204.120.158.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA16238 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:26:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net) Received: from AJC.State.Net (saturn.ajc.state.net [204.120.158.166]) by neptune.ajc.state.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05649; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:23:00 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3457A9F5.63542A9D@AJC.State.Net> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:26:13 -0600 From: Al Johnson Organization: Al Johnson Consulting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: admin@netsys.hn CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help for backup with TR-4 Travan minicartridges References: <345795AA.B8DC3FB1@netsys.hn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You're only missing one option here. Include the "a" option to dump and it will write until a physical eot is encountered. I had this same problem and a little looking through man dump located the solution to the problem. -- Al Quin Taylor wrote: > > Dear Sirs: > > I am an ISP in Honduras and I use TRAVAN tr-4 tapes for backup. > However I am having a large problem when issuing the unix dump backup > command. > Please send instructions for Free BSD Unix backup.... I am using > > /sbin/rdump 0dsfu 67733 740 /dev/nrst0 / > > This starts fine but needs 3 cartridges to complete a backup of > a 4gb hard disk and this disk is only 7% full. One tape should be plenty > but somehow I am giving incorrect command from unix. > > Please let me know the best dump command in unix to backup my unix > FREEBSD system.