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Now multivolume support with gzip might be a bit of a problem.  
I think (haven't experiment with gzip and dump for a long time so don't hold 
me to this) the command for a gzip dump is something like:
dump -0 /dev/rsd0a (or whatever partion being backed up) | gzip -9 > /dev/rst0 
(or whatever device you're backing up to).  I suppose you could try setting
the record size option in dump to the size of your back up HDD and play with
that a little (gzip might just be stupid enough to work with it).

If you want a good tape drive to do the job I recommend a Travan 4 tape drive 
(4 GB uncompressed should be more than enough).  Currently TR-4 drives are
available in IDE, SCSI, and parallel.  I have a SCSI TR-4 and have had no
trouble with it.

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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Anders Dinsen wrote:

* ->On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:55:07 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
* ->>Dump is the method of choice on this end.  
* ->>
* ->>The disadvantage of dump though is that it can be rather stupid on tape
* ->>length and then you have to punch in the tape size manually.  However,
* ->>when it comes to repairing a trashed partion there's no better method that
* ->>I know of.  Tar doesn't catch everything like dump so I'd advise against
* ->>tar.  Dump does is better and if you need compression there still are
* ->>little dirty methods of making it work with gzip (haven't had the
* ->>time/want to bother getting it fully working though with my TR-4 tape
* ->>drive).
* ->
* ->Can you point me to resources describing making it work with gzip
* ->while keeping multivolume support.
* ->
* ->A reason, that I rejected dump at first was, that at home I have only
* ->a removable 135 MB harddisk to backup to. It does'nt have room for a
* ->full backup of my system.
* ->
* ->Anders

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