Cron job dump requires tape change

Mike Maltese mike at pcmedx.com
Wed Jul 23 00:59:53 PDT 2003


I thought I had answered this before, but AFAIK, dump just doesn't support
multiple volumes. You'll either need to get a higher capacity tape drive,
resize your partitions, or use another backup utility.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Collins" <pineypl at bellsouth.net>
To: <freebsd-questions at FReeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: Cron job dump requires tape change


> I hope I am not asking a NewB question, but I read through dump and cron
> and see no obvious way to run a nightly dump through cron AND allow user
> intervention to change the tape.
>
> I am running a DDS2 tape drive and trying to backup around 12GB. The tape
> runs to the end, issues the end of tape, and then dump fails.
>
> TIA
> Bob
>
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