On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 07:10:16PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote: > [email protected] (Brett Lymn) writes: > > >Here is the patch that makes multi-tape dumps work for me: > > I'm currently testing > > http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/mlelstv/st.diff >
That looks good to me. > It's a bit cumbersome to do multi-tape dumps if your disk has 11GB > data and the tape fits 40GB uncompressed. > Yes, that would be tedious. Perhaps you could create a test tape with a few backups on it and use mt to position to the end of them and dump to /dev/nrst? I will give the patch a go on my system, my data hoard at the moment spans 3 lto2 tapes. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"
