Re: [Dump-users] dump label

[Stelian P. <ste...@fr...>]

Le mercredi 25 mai 2005 =C3=A0 16:24 -0700, Shane Kerschtien a =C3=A9crit :

> I currently stage all my dumps to disk before I copy them to tape (via=20
> the dd command).  However, I can't span multiple tapes with dd.  I have=20
> been trying to think of a way to use restore/dump so I can copy the=20
> dump files to tape.  The problem I am coming across is how I can=20
> maintain the "label" (I know it isn't the label, but I am uncertain=20
> what to call it).
> For example:
> new-fs dump file (little endian), This dump Fri Jan 28 14:47:42 2005,=20
> Previous dump Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969, Volume 1, Level zero, type:=20
> tape header, Label /, Filesystem /, Device /dev/sda6, Host xxx, Flags 1
> Does anyone have any idea how I can maintain this data?  The only thing=20
> I have come up with is to restore to disk, then do a dump to the tape=20
> (not a very nice way of doing it but I can't think of anything else).
> I am using dump 0.4b37.

I dont' understand what you're trying to achieve.=20

Do you want to split a dump file in several chunks, write each chunk on
a separate tape, then be able to restore directly from the tape ? In
this case you can't run 'restore' directly on the tapes, you will have
to concatenate the chunks together before launching restore on the whole
file.

Or is it something else ?

Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <ste...@fr...>