On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:

>
> 181.79 tapes for backup... that is perhaps a wee bit too much! ;-)
>
> Any ideas ?
>

Yeah, I remember this from when I had some DECstations running NetBSD/ 
pmax. Your best bet is to tell it to write until it hits EOT, which  
is just adding -a, as you never know what the actual needed tape  
length is with compression on. man dump.