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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:40:20 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        rich@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: multi-tape backup?
Message-ID:  <199811192240.XAA03478@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <19981119204218.52989@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 19, 98 08:42:18 pm"

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As J Wunsch wrote...
> As Murphey wrote:
> 
> > Is there currently any way to backup a single
> > filesystem (e.g. on a ccd array) across multiple tapes
> > in a DAT autoloader?
> 
> dump(8) can handle multiple tapes, but i'm afraid it won't talk to
> chio(8).  Perhaps you're going to teach it this?

Some loaders can be set to 'sequential mode' which in this case means
if they hit EOT they rewind the current tape and load a new one into the
drive. I know for example that DLT loaders can be set up to do so.

Wilko
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