Re: `dump' command - tape size

1997-10-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: : I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the : capacity of this is something around 2Gb. : : dump seems to believe that the capacity is something like 45Mb and, contrary : to what the manual says, does not keep on writing to t

Re: `dump' command - tape size

1997-10-30 Thread Steve Kostecke
> I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the > capacity of this is something around 2Gb. [snip] I had a bit of difficulty getting dump to work with my T-4000s (4Gb TR-4). What worked for me was defining the tape size in 1K blocks (even though the tape block size is d

Re: `dump' command - tape size

1997-10-30 Thread Philippe Troin
[sent only to debian-user, not cross-posted to debian-devel] On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 01:30:58 GMT "Oliver Elphick" (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: > I am trying to use dump to write to DAT tape (60m long); I believe the > capacity of this is something around 2Gb. Yes, about 2Gb. > dump seems to believe

Re: `dump' command

1997-10-30 Thread Philippe Troin
[sent only to debian-user, no cross-posted to debian-devel] On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:45:23 GMT "Oliver Elphick" (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: > The man page for dump says that Linux dump is not yet able to produce correct > multi-volume backups. > > However, the man page is dated 1993. > > Is this