another stupid dump question

[Tim Wunder]

On 5/7/2003 11:43 AM, someone claiming to be Brad De Vries wrote:
> --- Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> 
>>Is there a way to have dump backup multiple
>>filesystems onto a singe 
>>tape? In reading the man page, the only thing that
>>resembles that 
>>capability is th -M option, but that doesn't appear
>>to be what I want. 
>>Unless I'm misunderstanding the man page, it's not
>>possible.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Tim
> 
> 
> Tim, the -W option allows the dump command to _write
> to_ multiple volumes rather than _read from_ multiple
> filesystems.  If I understand your question correctly,
> trying to read data from multiple filesystems and
> write the backup to a single tape/disk/etc., you would
> simply list the files/directories to be backed up.
> 
> For example, if you have two filesystems:
> /dev/hda3 mounted on /home
> /dev/hda4 mounted on /opt
> and you wanted to back them both up to a tape on
> /dev/st0.  Assuming both filesystems are mounted, your
> dump command would look something like:
> dump -0u -f /dev/st0 /home /opt
> 
> 
But...
# /sbin/dump 0uf /dev/st0 / /home /var
Unknown arguments to dump: /home /var
# /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 / /home /var
Unknown arguments to dump: /home /var
   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

That doesn't seem to work with my version of dump...
# rpm -qf /sbin/dump
dump-0.4b25-1.70.0

Regards,
Tim