SUMMARY: Exabyte 850x dump parameters

From: Brian Terry (bet@justlaw.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 1994 - 09:40:06 CST


There turned out to be many variations on a theme with this one, but what
seemed to come up the most frequently was:

dump 0bdfs 126 54000 /dev/nrst8 13000 filesystem_name

where the key element is the device name:

(chart courtesy of Marisa Pfalz)

Tape Low-Density High-Density
Unit
st0 /dev/rst0 /dev/rst8
st1 /dev/rst1 /dev/rst9
st2 /dev/rst2 /dev/rst10
st3 /dev/rst3 /dev/rst11
st4 /dev/rst4 /dev/rst12
st5 /dev/rst5 /dev/rst13
st6 /dev/rst6 /dev/rst14
st7 /dev/rst7 /dev/rst15

Thanks to all who answered! Original post follows.

Pauline van Winsen
Colin Panisset
Paul Walters
rdm@stars.health
Jean Edgar
Marisa Pfalz
Larry Miller
Mike Frizzell
Timothy Henrion
Pat Cain
Jerry Symanski
Brian Decker
Cecil Pang
Paul Dodd
Gelnn Satchell
David Edward
Richard Mitchell
rwolf@drector.dciem.dnd.ca
Adam Fox
Aline Runde

ORIGINAL POST:

> Sun Managers:
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> Hopefully an easy one for a Monday morning:
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> What are the proper arguments to use with dump on an Exabyte 850x to get
5Gb on
> a tape? I have been unable to locate this in FAQ. I am no longer able to
> complete my backups as the totals are now approx 4Gb.
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> Brian Terry
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> bet@justlaw.com



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