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  3. From: mrandall@av8r.uucp (Mark Randall)
  4. Subject: Re: Multiple save-sets on a tape
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul21.145019.5078@av8r.uucp>
  6. Organization: Daniel Webster College, Nashua, NH
  7. References: <Bqo4q4.Hy6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992JUL20.175952.03@pegasus.ch>
  8. Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:50:19 GMT
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  10.  
  11. In article <1992JUL20.175952.03@pegasus.ch> imkesun@pegasus.ch (Ralph Kloess) writes:
  12. > In msg <Bqo4q4.Hy6@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, MULLEN@scorpion.ag.uiuc.edu (Evil Twin) writes:
  13. > > 
  14. > > Hi there;
  15. > > 
  16. > > I want to put multiple backup save-sets on a single 8mm Exabyte tape.  I've
  17. > > tried a couple of methods that flew like the proverbial lead balloon -
  18. > > 
  19. > > 1) made save-sets to disk, then tried to COPY the files to tape,
  20. > > 2) first save-set used /REWIND qualifier, then subsequent saves /NOREWIND
  21. > >    (without dismounting first).
  22. > >    MOUNT/FOR MUB0:
  23. > >    BACKUP disk:[dir-struct1] MUB0:save-set1.BCK/SAVE_SET/REWIND/LABEL=label
  24. > >    BACKUP disk:[dir-struct2] MUB0:save-set2.BCK/SAVE_SET/NOREWIND/LABEL=label
  25. > > 
  26. > >    BACKUP disk:[dir-struct3] MUB0:save-set3.BCK/SAVE_SET/NOREWIND/LABEL=label
  27. > > 
  28. > Hi,
  29. >    we put multiple savesets on a 8mm exabyte by doing an
  30. >    $INIT $1$MUA110: 'label'
  31. >    and then
  32. >    $BACKUP disk:[dir-struct-1...] $1$MUA110:saveset-1.bck/SAVE/LABEL='label'
  33. >    $BACKUP disk:[dir-struct-2...] $1$MUA110:saveset-2.bck/SAVE/LABEL='label'
  34. >    $BACKUP disk:[dir-struct-n...] $1$MUA110:saveset-n.bck/SAVE/LABEL='label'
  35. >    It works fine so far (over a year)
  36.  
  37. Will this work for a /IMAGE saveset as well?
  38.  
  39.  
  40.                     Mark
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