> Ludo Koren wrote:
>> It doesn't help either... The result is the same.
>>
>>
> Just to check I'm understanding your problem correctly --
> you're expecting to write much more data to the tape than is
> actually being written.
That's right. I suppose that 54GB o
Ludo Koren wrote:
It doesn't help either... The result is the same.
Just to check I'm understanding your problem correctly -- you're
expecting to write much more data to the tape than is actually being
written.
If that's correct, then there's a couple things I can think of:
1) Your tape drive
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>Anyway, cpio
>> # /sbin/dump -Lu0 -B 41943040 -C 32 -f /dev/sa0 /usr
>>
>>
>>
> I would guess that your tape drive does hardware compression in
> which case the amount of data which fits on a tape is variable.
> In such a case you can't tell dump how big the tape is -- I
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> On Monday, 14 March 2005 at 10:38:02 +0100, Ludo Koren wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 for backup on DDS-
Ludo Koren wrote:
# /sbin/dump -Lu0 -B 41943040 -C 32 -f /dev/sa0 /usr
I would guess that your tape drive does hardware compression in which
case the amount of data which fits on a tape is variable. In such a
case you can't tell dump how big the tape is -- I haven't used options
like -B sinc
On Monday, 14 March 2005 at 10:38:02 +0100, Ludo Koren wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 for backup on DDS-4 tapes 40GB in size.
>
> ...
>
> Why I cannot dump the filesystem on 2 tapes (it takes 3, it seems it
> works without compression) no matter if I
Hi,
I am using 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 for backup on DDS-4 tapes 40GB in size.
# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/vinum/root 1016162 157405 77746517%/
devfs 110 100%/dev
/dev/vinum/usr 84746248 54467390
