I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the
capacity of this is something around 2Gb.
dump seems to believe that the capacity is something like 45Mb and, contrary
to what the manual says, does not keep on writing to the end of the tape, but
asks for a new volume after
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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:45:23 GMT Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk)
wrote:
The man page for dump says that Linux dump is not yet able to produce correct
multi-volume backups.
However, the man page is dated 1993.
Is this
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:30:58 GMT Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk)
wrote:
I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the
capacity of this is something around 2Gb.
Yes, about 2Gb.
dump seems to believe that
I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the
capacity of this is something around 2Gb.
[snip]
I had a bit of difficulty getting dump to work with my T-4000s (4Gb TR-4).
What worked for me was defining the tape size in 1K blocks (even though the
tape block size is
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
: I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the
: capacity of this is something around 2Gb.
:
: dump seems to believe that the capacity is something like 45Mb and, contrary
: to what the manual says, does not keep on writing to
The man page for dump says that Linux dump is not yet able to produce correct
multi-volume backups.
However, the man page is dated 1993.
Is this statement still true? If so, what goes wrong?
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