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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980119234041.1277A-100000@quark.ChrisBowman.com>you w
rite:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Robert Nestor wrote:
> >would take approximately 86 tapes!  Thinking this was bogus and it would 
> >run until it found an EOT I inserted the first cartridge and let it go.  
> >Sure enough after about 1100 tape blocks it prompted for another tape.  
[...]
> I have this exact same drive but it is mounted on my FreeBSD machine.
> When I do a dump on that machine I use dumps -a option which appears
[...]
> unfortuneately NetBSD's dump doesn't have this (I just looked at the man
> page.) you may have to fiddle with the desity does and such.

I use since ages 
"dump 0f - /dev/rsd0a > /dev/nrst0".
This may be reformatted to 
"dump 0f - /dev/rsd0a | dd obs=10k of=/dev/nrst0" in case of bizarre drives 
like some ExaBytes or DAT drives.

> let me know if you figure out how to turn on compression.

"dump 0f - /dev/rsd0a | gzip -9 | dd bs=10k of=/dev/nrst0"

;-)

Gruesse
       Oskar

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