So each subsequent dump will append to the tape?

jam
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frederick Bruckman" <fb@enteract.com>
To: "John Maier" <jmaier@midamerica.net>
Cc: <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Tape Backups -- tar vs. dump


> 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
> 
>