Multi-volume compressed dumps on DVDs

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au> writes:
> Has anyone looked at modifying dump/restore to support:
> 1) Dumping onto DVDs (sending the appropriate "close volume" command)
> 2) Compressed multi-volume dumps
>    This means monitoring the compressed data stream and flushing the
>    compress engine state at the end of each volume (so that each volume
>    remains a independent entity for restore purposes).

'man dump', look for the -P option.

DES
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