On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Dima Veselov wrote:

>    I wanted to backup my NetBSD-1.4.2/i386 server, but it is one
> problem. I want to use `dump` for it. But I found, that NetBSD's dump
> havn't -a switch. In other systems -a switch turn off tape counter to
> prevent end-of-tape earlier than tape really ended.

That's not a bad idea! All you can do now is use
-B"really_large_number". It will then sense the end-of-tape, as long
as the device reports it. You might consider using "send-pr" to file a
change-request.

> My streamer is with compression, so I don't know real tape capacity. For
> example Solaris ufs_dump and OpenBSD dump has -a switch, which turn on
> end-of-tape signal recognition.


Frederick