Dumping multiple partitions to a single tape.

[Mike Khaw]

davew at gvgpsa.GVG.TEK.COM (David C. White) writes:


+In article <1990Feb21.051622.10343 at ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> map at cscosl.ncsu.edu (Mark Parris) writes:
+    
+[deleted text about using the nrmt device]
+    
+>Someone mentioned using mt rewind to rewind the tape after all of the
+>dumps were made.  I was unable to test this because there seemed to be no
+>equivalent for remote dumps.   I simply rewound using the tape drive rewind
+>button.

+There is an easy workaround for this one.  For your last dump use
+the rewind device and the tape will rewind automatically when
+the dump is complete.

If dump behaves like tar, then this will cause the tape to rewind to
BOT *before* dumping the last filesystem, thus destroying your earlier
dump(s).
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Mike Khaw
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