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From: trant@empower.corp.sgi.com (Ken Trant)
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Subject: Re: parameters for (r)dump to an exabyte
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.233127.14710@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 23:31:27 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.222701.29689@cs.ucla.edu> <1991Jun20.084904@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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 Well, for what it's worth. I use a density of 408215 ( Total - 10% for warm
fuzzy feeling). My command line looks like this:

 dump 0udbf $dens 512 $tape /dev/filesystem
dens=408215
tape=nrtape

 Hope this helps.

In article <1991Jun20.084904@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov>, karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl Anderson) writes:
|> In article <1991Jun19.222701.29689@cs.ucla.edu>,
|> frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier) writes:
|> 
|> |> 	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.
|> |> -- 
|> 
|> I use b 126 and s 14025.  I don't specify d.  Works like a champ, for
|> both local and remote dumps on an all-Sun network.
|> --
|> Karl A. Anderson		| Internet: karl@forest.gsfc.nasa.gov


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