Dump

[Joshua Oreman]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 08:38:03AM -0700 or thereabouts, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:15:08AM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael Alestock wrote:
> > I had a question....
> > 
> > I have 4 filesystems that I want to dump(8) to my SCSI Tape backup drive 
> > (Travan 4GB uncompressed).  The filesystems are, "/", "/usr", "/var", and 
> > "/usr/home."  All four filesystems equal about 2.5Gigs of data.
> > 
> > I dumped the first filesystem "/" by executing, "dump -0uf /dev/sa0 / " 
> > ....then executed, "mt -f /dev/sa0 eom" to move the tape to the end of the 
> > backup (to append to the tape), then dumped the second filesystem (/usr) 
> > using,"dump -0uf /dev/sa0 /usr".  Then once again I executed, "mt -f 
> > /dev/sa0" to move the tape to the end (to append to it).
> > 
> > When I go to execute, "restore -if /dev/sa0" to confirm that both filesystems 
> > were saved so far, there's only ONE filesystem saved to the tape "/".  I 
> > can't 'cd' to /var because it's not on the tape.  What am I doing wrong???  I 
> > know I still have plenty of tape left to save other filesystems, but it's not 
> > dumping anything after the first filesystem.
> > 
> > Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong??
> 

Please use /dev/nsa0 and not /dev/sa0, my bad.

> 
> -- Josh
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > >>> Michael
> > 
> > 
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