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From: janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson)
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Subject: Re: parameters for (r)dump to an exabyte
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Date: 20 Jun 91 10:10:40 GMT
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In <1991Jun19.222701.29689@cs.ucla.edu> frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier) writes:

>Hello -
>	Could somebody give me the appropriate parameters for
>doing a dump to an exebyte tape (2 gbyte)?  For the record,
>what I just tried was
>	dump 0usdf 6000 54000 /dev/rst1 filesystem
>as specified in the man page.  Thanks for any help.

And what went wrong?

I'm using the same parameters, except I'm using a blocksize of 126, and it
seems to work fine.  (Don't think I've ever reached the end of a tape yet,
though :-{ )  (that's supposed to be a look of consternation)


Janet Jackson
(janet@cs.uwa.oz.AU)
Department of Computer Science
The University of Western Australia