now a dump question (was Re: tar question...)

[Tim Wunder]

On 5/6/2003 8:44 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
<snip>
>>disk usage on /home is at or near the uncompressed capacity of my tape drive,
>>so I started reading thru the dump man page, and it looks like you can
>>compress the dump. Based on what I read, I thought I just needed to add a "z"
>>in there, like so:
>>/sbin/dump 0uzBf 10000000 /dev/st0 /home
>>But this doesn't seem to work for me. Is there anything obviously wrong there?
>>I'm gonna be using tar for the backup for the time being, but it seems to be
>>alot easier to restore individual files using dump/restore. So I'd like to
>>get a functional compressed dump.
> 
> 
> I think this might be dependent on the type of tape drive that you're
> using.  I have this vague memory that some tape drives are incapable of
> handling compressed dumps on the fly.
> 

That makes sense, I'll look into it. A compressed tar works, but that's 
different, I guess.

> 
>>BTW, this is on a RHL 7.0 server.
> 
> 
> eewwww.
> 

Yeah, I know. It works though.
Gave me almost a year's worth of uptime at one point...before a power 
outage killed it. I'm aprehensive about the idea of upgrading, since the 
thing does handle the job (file and print services) well.

Tim