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From: bill@banana.fedex.com (bill daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: How to make dump not rewind the tape?
Keywords: dump,dec,utlrix
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.131610.7528@banana.fedex.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 13:16:10 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.192745.19638@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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kocks@jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks) writes:

>I have found that the dump command always rewinds the tape when it is
>done.  Is there a way of having dump not rewind when it finishes?
>Thanks
>Peter Kocks
>pkocks@chemistry.stanford.edu

You can more than likely specify the no-rewind tape device, ie. /dev/nrmt0h.
This will allow you to concatenate dumps on a single large tape such as
8mm or 4mm.

Try something like this:

dump 0uf /dev/nmt0h / ; dump 0uf /dev/rmt0h /usr
mt rewind
restore tf /dev/nrmt0h ; mt fsf ; restore tf /dev/rmt0h

bill
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