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- From: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: what are some good params for dumping to an exabyte?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.120859.13691@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 12:08:59 GMT
- References: <1992Jul31.062912.18701@news.clarkson.edu>
- Sender: news@cl.cam.ac.uk (The news facility)
- Reply-To: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
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- In article <1992Jul31.062912.18701@news.clarkson.edu>,
- abstine@hobbes.erc.clarkson.edu (Art Stine) writes:
- |> Can anyone tell me what some good parameters are for dumping to an
- |> exabyte (2.3G and 5.0G) drive in order to get the most out of a tape?
-
- This question often comes up. It seems to me that trying to find
- parameters which correctly express the size of an Exabyte is a waste
- of time, for two reasons:
-
- 1. You don't usually want to split dumps across Exabytes, because they
- are big relative to most filesystems. More often you are doing the
- converse - multiple dumps on one tape. In that case, dump's notion
- of tape size is flawed.
-
- 2. The code in dump which estimates what will fit on a tape is a historical
- relic. In Ultrix, it will detect end of media and request a new tape
- anyway. No need to tell it.
-
- I wish there was an option to tell dump to forget about guessing the
- tape length (and that it were the default!). In the absence of this, we
- just give it numbers which are so big that any dump we do will never be
- artificially split by dump. Just give it big numbers - we use "s 150000"
- and let the other default. Just watch out that you don't make the numbers
- so big that you get overflow!
-
- Martyn Johnson maj@cl.cam.ac.uk
- University of Cambridge Computer Lab
- Cambridge UK
-