[Fwd: Re: dump params for a DDS-3 tape]

From: Daniel A. Monjar <dmonjar_at_orgtek.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:44:46 +0000

thanks to

        alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
        Amy <amy_at_aloha.nascom.nasa.gov>
        Sean O'Connell <sean_at_stat.Duke.EDU>


The reason why I couldn't let DEC Unix handle the tape length stuff was
that the dumpers were Linux boxes and Linux dump is stupid, or at least
not as smart as DEC Unix. Sean suggested reversing the control flow
with something like:

        rsh client 'dump -0 -other flags -f - filesystem' | dd bs=?
of=/dev/tape_device

thereby letting dd on DEC Unix handle the tape.

Dan Monjar
Received on Thu Apr 15 1999 - 19:47:38 NZST