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Message-ID: <329E6BD7.5950@3-cities.com> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:51:35 -0800 From: Mark Smith <msmith@3-cities.com> Reply-To: msmith@3-cities.com Organization: Lost Somewhere in Time X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: dump and DAT, what block/density to use? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: bigtca211.3-cities.com Lines: 7 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!galaxy.3-cities.com! Greetings, I'm trying to use dump to backup a couple of file systems to a single 2G DAT tape. The problem is that it gets about 300MB into a tape and wants a new one. What block size and density options for dump should I use to get the full 2G of tape? Thanks Mark