On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 23:45, Michael Alestock wrote: > I had a question.... > > I have 4 filesystems that I want to dump(8) to my SCSI Tape backup drive > (Travan 4GB uncompressed). The filesystems are, "/", "/usr", "/var", and > "/usr/home." All four filesystems equal about 2.5Gigs of data. > > I dumped the first filesystem "/" by executing, "dump -0uf /dev/sa0 / " > ....then executed, "mt -f /dev/sa0 eom" to move the tape to the end of the
Not sure that this is good; especially if it is not a new tape. Try: # mt -f /dev/nsa0 fsf 1 Or write dumps to /dev/nsa0 which leaves the tape positioned for next file. > backup (to append to the tape), then dumped the second filesystem (/usr) > using,"dump -0uf /dev/sa0 /usr". Then once again I executed, "mt -f > /dev/sa0" to move the tape to the end (to append to it). > > When I go to execute, "restore -if /dev/sa0" to confirm that both > filesystems were saved so far, there's only ONE filesystem saved to the > tape "/". I can't 'cd' to /var because it's not on the tape. What am I > doing wrong??? I know I still have plenty of tape left to save other > filesystems, but it's not dumping anything after the first filesystem. > When invoked restore will only look at one dump. You need to move past the first dump file before invoking restore on say /usr. If your end-of-file marks are correctly written you should be able to do this with: # mt -f /dev/nsa0 fsf 1 Now invoke restore -if /dev/sa0 -- should find /usr Malcolm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"