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Re: experimenting with dump
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Ghens)
Sun Nov 1 21:51:30 1998
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 18:50:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Ghens <michael@spconnect.com>
To: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199810312207.OAA00810@belvdere.vip.best.com>
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Dump: you have to tell the dump program how big your tape is. The B option
should do this.
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On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, David E. Fox wrote:
> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 14:07:30 -0800 (PST)
> From: David E. Fox <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
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> Subject: experimenting with dump
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> Hi, just experimenting here. I'll probably be using tar or
> (x)bru, they seem easier to understand.
>
> But there's always dump :) so if there are people who know
> more about it than I do, please feel free to respond..
>
> At any rate, I did:
>
> # dump 0f /dev/nst0 /
>
> to start a level 0 dump of the root filesystem. That worked.
>
> What happened next, though, when I went to back up /usr (by
> far the largest, with about 1.3 megs or so allocated to it),
> dump tells me two strange things:
>
> First, it tells me that I'll need 39+ tapes (ouch!). This drive
> does 2gig uncompressed, 4gig compressed, and I've got roughly
> 1.9 gigs here (1.6 meg HD + a 345 meg HD).
>
> Second, it spurts out something about the master/slave protocol
> botched, and aborts the dump. ???
>
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> David E. Fox Tax Thanks for letting me
> dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com the change magnetic patterns
> root@belvedere.sbay.org churches on your hard disk.
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