> On a second note --- are multiple 'rdumps' to the same non-rewinding
> tape on a network a reliable way of archiving or is it better to use
> tar, if one wants to archive multiple partitions without using multiple
> Gigabyte tapes ?
> i.e. does anybody else do it the same way ?

I do something like this to back up my netbsd box:
    dump 0udsf 10000 22000 jacana:/dev/nrst03 /
    dump 0udsf 10000 22000 jacana:/dev/nrst03 /var
    dump 0udsf 10000 22000 jacana:/dev/nrst03 /usr
    dump 0udsf 10000 22000 jacana:/dev/nrst03 /Src
    dump 0udsf 10000 22000 jacana:/dev/nrst03 /usr/local
    dump 0udsf 10000 22000 jacana:/dev/nrst03 /home

Onto 1 4mm 60M DAT tape; works great. (Jacana is a BSD 4.3 box)
Basically the same thing as what I do for all our other machines
around here. (We have 2 DAT drives and I often put incrementals for
multiple partitions of multiple machines onto the one tape.)

I prefer dump over tar for this too - it's faster.

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