dumping onto several tapes

[anthony zador]

Supposing I have 180 MB of stuff on a partition that i want to back up
with dump. I have a 150 Mb tape drive. I do the dump, and am informed that
it uses 1.2 (or whatever) tapes. The question is, What do I do with the
remaining .8 of a tape???

These tapes aren't cheap. If I tell the next dump that my tape is only .8
its actual length (and assuming i can mt fsf 1--would this even work?)
then this next dump will write on only .8 of the next full tape. And so
on. 

Q: Is there a good solution to this? I suppose I could use tar, but i like
dump.

Thanks,
Tony Zador
zador-anthony at CS.YALE.EDU