Multivolume dumps via dump | compress | dd

Frederick M. Avolio avolio at decuac.DEC.COM
Thu Mar 1 04:26:54 AEST 1990


I found the following command saves the most space for dumps and I only ever
need mount one tape:

dump 0ucf - /usr >/dev/null

Of course this ius useful only if you don't ever need to restore :-)

Fred


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Look, just in case, the above is a joke, see?  Don't go saving your disks
like that!



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