Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 06:49:02PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 10/17/09, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: snip You do not need to. dump alrady writes that when it finishes each time. If you to that, you will get a second one at that location. You do not need to do the rewind and

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 08:09:22PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 10/17/09, Stevan Tiefert stevan-tief...@kabelmail.de wrote: Am Samstag, den 17.10.2009, 18:49 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd: On 10/17/09, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: snip You do not need to. dump alrady writes that when

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-17 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Freitag, den 16.10.2009, 20:43 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd: Replies inline On 10/16/09, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: --8 snip, snap... --8 Something like mt fsf 1will skip over the first dump file so you can write the second.mt fsf 2 will skip over two

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-17 Thread Karl Vogel
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:37:32 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu said: J You can easily put more than one dump on a tape if there is room enough J for them. I actually rewind and skip between each dump of multiples J made to the same tape. I also use the no-rewind device for the tape.

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 08:43:26PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: Replies inline On 10/16/09, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:13:21PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, one example: If I have three partitions and I want to backup every day these

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-17 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/17/09, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: snip You do not need to. dump alrady writes that when it finishes each time. If you to that, you will get a second one at that location. You do not need to do the rewind and mt fsf between each dump. I just do it to make it very clear to

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-17 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Samstag, den 17.10.2009, 18:49 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd: On 10/17/09, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: snip You do not need to. dump alrady writes that when it finishes each time. If you to that, you will get a second one at that location. You do not need to do the rewind and

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-17 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/17/09, Stevan Tiefert stevan-tief...@kabelmail.de wrote: Am Samstag, den 17.10.2009, 18:49 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd: On 10/17/09, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: snip You do not need to. dump alrady writes that when it finishes each time. If you to that, you will get a second

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:13:21PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, one example: If I have three partitions and I want to backup every day these partitions, will I need 21 tapes? I ask because it seems it is not possible to place more than one dump on one tape, isn't it? You can

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-16 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Freitag, den 16.10.2009, 17:37 -0400 schrieb Jerry McAllister: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:13:21PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, one example: If I have three partitions and I want to backup every day these partitions, will I need 21 tapes? I ask because it seems it is

Re: small question about tape-based dumps

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Judd
Replies inline On 10/16/09, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:13:21PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, one example: If I have three partitions and I want to backup every day these partitions, will I need 21 tapes? I ask because it seems it is not