Re: dump - restore

2012-07-20 Thread Mostafa Hashemi
Thank you what should i do ? did i do it in the right way in order to run a dump to backup the whole system

Re: dump - restore

2012-07-20 Thread Dom
On 20/07/12 19:50, Mostafa Hashemi wrote: sorry because of last message, coincidentally i pressed send key the complete message is : hi guys thank you all for your answers to my last questions. i found how dump - restore works. but i have question : i did this : dump -0aj -f /tmp/1.bak /

Re: dump & restore

1998-07-02 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Here's the scoop. Dump wants to know how much capacity the tape has. Traditionally this information was given to dump by passing it the density *and* length. Linux dump allows you to specify the tape capacity in bytes with the 'B' option. Apparently some very old tape systems could not detect th

Re: dump & restore

1998-07-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > >Hi, > > I'm trying to learn how dump and restore utilities work and I'm >having not much success. I could do a dump of a filesystem using the line >dump 0udf 61000 /dev/nst0 /tmp2, where 61000 is the density of my tape. > If I do only this,