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(fwd) Re: Multiple Backups on one tape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Wed Dec 9 20:04:41 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 09:22:02 +0100
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
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Subject: Re: Multiple Backups on one tape
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tim hibbard <sysadmin@hocking.edu> wrote:
> mt -f /dev/st0 rewind #Rewind the tape to beg
> bru -cvf /dev/st0 /root #Backup Root Partion
> mt -f /dev/st0 fsf 1 #This should position me at the next marker?
> bru -cvf /dev/st0 /etc #back up /etc
Use the /dev/nst0. Using /dev/st0 causes automatic rewinding. Thus
mt -f /dev/st0 fsf 1 skips one file and then the tape is rewound.
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