how to append multiple dumps to single tape

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Dec 15 18:47:01 PST 2003


"DG" <david at fielden.com.au> writes:

> On the subject of multiple dumps, how does one append several dumps to the
> same tape?  The dump man page does not seem to indicate an 'append' option.
> 
> I have a SCSI DAT drive (DDS2) if that makes any difference to it's
> appendability.

I thought that's what the nsa (as opposed to sa(4)) device was for...

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