On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 07:41:58AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
-> I just bought a 20GB tape drive for my server and have a question about
-> dump. I'm using it like:
->
-> /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 20000000 /
-> /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 20000000 /home
->
-> When I do this, it looks like dump overwrites the first backup of / so
-> that only /home is one the tape. Is there a way to dump multiple
-> filesystems onto one tape using dump? I have four partitions I need to
-> backup, and want them put on the tape one after the other so my entire
-> system is backed up. I looked for some commandline arguments to specify
-> volume or something similar to appending it to the end of the tape, but I
-> can't find anything like that.
Yes. You should dump to the no-rewind device, probably /dev/nst0. A dump
to /dev/st0 does an automatic rewind at the end.
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