How to make dump not rewind the tape?

[T. Gordon Marler]

In article <1991Apr25.131610.7528 at banana.fedex.com> bill at banana.fedex.com (bill daniels) writes:
>kocks at jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks) writes:
>
>
>You can more than likely specify the no-rewind tape device, ie. /dev/nrmt0h.
>This will allow you to concatenate dumps on a single large tape such as
>8mm or 4mm.
>
>Try something like this:
>
>dump 0uf /dev/nmt0h / ; dump 0uf /dev/rmt0h /usr
>mt rewind
>restore tf /dev/nrmt0h ; mt fsf ; restore tf /dev/rmt0h
>
>bill

	What happens if the file system you are dumping to this tape runs
off the end of the tape and has to continue on another?  Will it give you
problems when you try to restore it later?

Gordon Marler
System Manager
Center for Computational Biomechanics
UT Arlington


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