[CLUE-Tech] using DUMP

[Michael Robbert]

Dan,
Use /dev/nst0, which is the non-rewinding tape device. If you want the tape rewound you'll
have to do it as an extra step though.

* Dan Harris (coronadh at coronasolutions.com) wrote:
> Hey all, my usual backup software (Tapeware) is not working correctly and I need to do a "dump" without it tonight.  I can dump one volume to the tape correctly, but I need to dump /usr and /usr2 onto a tape;
> 
> I'm doing this:
> 
> /sbin/dump 0bf 64 /dev/st0 /usr
> 
> 
> The problem is that if I do it again with /usr2 it overwrites the existing tape.  How can I append /usr2? 
> 
> Thanks
> -Dan
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