Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bcars85!linegar From: linegar@bcars85.bnr.ca (Derick Linegar) Subject: Re: Dumping to an exabyte tape drive Message-ID: Sender: news@bnrgate.bnr.ca (USENET News System) Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. Ottawa Ontario CANADA References: <1990Aug29.143657.20588@siesoft.co.uk> Date: 2 Sep 90 05:11:53 GMT fpb@schlitz.ittc.wec.com (Frank P. Bresz) writes: >In article <1990Aug29.143657.20588@siesoft.co.uk> duncan@siesoft.co.uk (Duncan McEwan) writes: >>I'm not sure that this is the most appropriate group for this query, but I >>guess it will reach most of the people who will be able to answer it. > [....] >On A Sun I use : >dump 0ufsd /dev/nrst2 6000 54000 /dev/id000a >However I just got done dumping eleven partitions onto a single tape with >the following results: [....] This was discussed at some lenght in comp.sys.sun a while back, and to summarize, the options I use for dump to make maximum use of a exabyte tape drive is: /usr/etc/dump 0ucbsdf 56 5190 4100000 /dev/whatever file-system Now it doesn't use the all the 2.3 Gigabyte of space, but it is close enough for me not to worry about that. -derick- -- #include Derick Linegar, Internet Systems 4P27, Bell-Northern Research BITNET: LINEGAR@BNR.ca P.O. Box 3511 Station C UUCP: ...uunet!bnrgate!bcars85!linegar Ottawa ONT. K1Y 4H7