Re: BAH! I've taken a dump and want to verify it ;)

["Joseph C. Bender" <jcbender@benderhome.net>]

At 02:18 AM 05/07/2004 -0500, Rick Barter wrote:
>I did my dump as follows:
>
>/sbin/dump -0f /dev/nrst0 /
>/sbin/dump -0f /dev/nrst0 /var
>/sbin/dump -0f /dev/nrst0 /home
>
	Look at the -s option.  It applies to "tape files", which, IIRC, each dump
would be, seeing as you're doing a non-rewind on the tape (as you should).
In your case, it looks like "-s 3" would work when added to restore's
command line.  The tape will have to seek, of course, to the dump's
position, I think.

If dump doesn't write EOF marks correctly (Like I said, I think it does (Or
mtio does on device close)), you could always intersperse eof marks to
generate file markers using mt.  But I can't think you'd ever need to.


I'm going to be dealing with this myself soon, as I just had a DLT get
kicked loose here at work and I get it for my "server" underneath my desk,
so I won't have to netbackup to our big host every night (I'm doing dumps
to files right now).



Signing off, 

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Joseph C. Bender
jcbender at benderhome dot net