On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, John Maier wrote:

> dump didn't like the multipule mount points:
> > dump -0u -L `date '+%m/%d/%G'` -B 20000000000 / /usr /var
> Excess arguments to dump: /usr /var
>
> And
> > dump -f /dev/rst0 / /usr /var
> reports the same error.

I must be getting senile. Now I remember. I have something like this
in my ~/.bashrc on the computer with the tape drive:

backup() {
  for i in $@; do
    dump -0u -B 2000000 $i;
  done;
}

(It's 2G DDS.) Then I do "backup / /usr /home", or whatever.

-- 

Frederick