Re: st.c update has broken dump multi-tape support

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 07:10:16PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> blymn%internode.on.net@localhost (Brett Lymn) writes:
> 
> >Here is the patch that makes multi-tape dumps work for me:
> 
> I'm currently testing
> 
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/mlelstv/st.diff
> 

 That looks good to me.

> It's a bit cumbersome to do multi-tape dumps if your disk has 11GB
> data and the tape fits 40GB uncompressed.
> 
 Yes, that would be tedious.  Perhaps you could create a test tape with a few backups on it
and use mt to position to the end of them and dump to /dev/nrst?

I will give the patch a go on my system, my data hoard at the moment spans 3 lto2 tapes.

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