Subject: Re: dump - short guide
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/22/2001 19:37:34
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:11:05AM +1100, Giles Lean wrote:
>
> > how to dump simultanously multiple filesystems?
>
> You can't, unless you have multiple tape drives.
Or unless you dump into files on a holding disk. However, this is
no different from SunOS dump; James was confused. When dumping to
a tape, dump *always* uses multiple processes to keep the pipe full.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with how many filesystems are being
dumped.