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- From: davidb@hpuadla.aus.hp.com (David Booth)
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:22:09 GMT
- Subject: Re: Help needed using fbackup with multiple volumes
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- stephane@spxtech.qc.ca (Stephane Laroche) writes:
- : Is it possible (it has to be...) to backup file systems to multiple
- : optical disks? It is not clear from the manual if fbackup can handle
- : a change of volume cleanly even though the backup can't fit on one
- : disk. Right now, fbackup stops whenever the first optical disk
- : is full.
- :
- : Anyone can point me to a section of the manual explaining this or,
- : better, tell me what options I should use? Our system is an HP9000 300
- : running HP-UX 8.0.
-
- I have never backed up to an MO disc system, but you can most certainly run
- fbackup along the lines of:
-
- fbackup [opts] -f /dev/target1 -f /dev/target2 -f /dev/target3.... [more opts]
-
- and fbackup will cleanly switch from one media to the next. I suppose it works
- on MO media as well. Regards,
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