Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!jtb From: jtb@cs.ed.ac.uk (Jo Blishen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Backup in diff. filesets on a DAT/tape under HP-UX Message-ID: <11882@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 3 Jun 91 09:33:05 GMT References: <734@elctr.UUCP> Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh Lines: 16 In article , jco@donner.cis.ufl.edu (John C. Orthoefer) writes: > > To back up many filesystems to one tape. You should have the non-rewinding > device built for the DAT. Then you dump (we use dump, tar works the same Does this mean dump works OK on a DAT drive? Which version of HP-UX? We are running 7.05 and we were told that dump isn't supported on our 1300S SCSI DAT drive. Jo -- Jo Blishen JANET: jtb@uk.ac.ed.lfcs LFCS, Dept. of Computer Science UUCP: ..!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!jtb University of Edinburgh ARPA: jtb%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK. Tel: 031-650-5192