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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
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- Subject: Re: dump multi-filesystem on multiple tape
- Message-ID: <1993Jan19.223339.17655@siemens.com>
- Date: 19 Jan 93 22:33:39 GMT
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- >If you use a tape device which doesn't autorewind (like /dev/nrst0) you can
- >simply do successive dumps. For example, on an exabyte 8200, I might do:
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- He said "multiple tapes", though. What happens when you hit EOT? Dump
- should act gracefully at EOT so that a dumb stacker or operator can just slap
- in another tape and let it continue from where it left off.
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- Similarly, dump should detect when it's writing to stdout or a file, and
- suppress what it thinks are tape changes.
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- I know of one vendor that added a -E flag to dump to accomplish this.
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