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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Multivolume dumps via dump | compress | dd
Keywords: dump dd compress multivolume tk50
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Date: 28 Feb 90 17:26:54 GMT
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Reply-To: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
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I found the following command saves the most space for dumps and I only ever
need mount one tape:

dump 0ucf - /usr >/dev/null

Of course this ius useful only if you don't ever need to restore :-)

Fred


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Look, just in case, the above is a joke, see?  Don't go saving your disks
like that!