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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dump on a DAT tape ..
Date: 15 May 1996 17:26:57 +0100
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: rob@xs1.simplex.nl (Rob Simons) wrote:

: > - What's normally used to make backups of 2-4Gb disk volume to a DAT ?

: I prefer dump(8) for full backups.

: > - What parameters do I specify for the tape .. it's a 90 meter 2Gb
: >   cartridge.

: dump 0uBbf 2000000 32 /dev/nrst0 /usr

: -- 
: cheers, J"org

: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

IMO, tar is infinitely better.  It takes longer, but you can read it on
any machine.  I adopted dump/restore at one time, until I needed to restore
something.  tar works on every architecture that I use.

BTW, it was probably 386BSD that screwed me up, but since then I decided
that the more architectures that can read a given tape format, the better
the tape format.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....