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Subject: Re: Dump parameters for Exabyte
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From article <10198@brazos.Rice.edu>, by romeo@lindy.stanford.edu (Patrick Goebel):
> Last week a fellow netlander posted an example of dump parameters to
> use with an Exabyte:
> /etc/dump 0fubsd /dev/nrst1 50 6000 54000 /dev/rid000a
> If anyone knows the answer, posting it to the net might be useful to
> others as well.  Thanks!

We use Exabyte for local dumps of our server machines.  Our parameters:

/etc/dump 0ucdst 7690 23249 /dev/nrst1 /dev/rxd0a

Density and size parameters as recommended by SUN, our Exabyte source. We
use SONY tapes, type P5-90 MP and Exabyte cardridges, type 2048.  A file
of 187.25MB (383478 blocks) dumps to 0.01 tapes, for example.  It works
fine.