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[Dave White]

In article <1990Nov14.201711.23375 at cs.utk.edu>, de5 at ornl.gov (Dave Sill)
writes:
|>In article <3856 at vela.acs.oakland.edu>, schemers at vela.acs.oakland.edu
(Roland Schemers III) writes:
|>>If multiple dumps are placed on a single tape using 
|>>dump 0f /dev/nrmt0h, how can you position yourself to 
|>>the n'th dump on a tape? It looks like 'mt' should do
|>>it, but I'm not sure what the dump format is.
|>
|>Each dump takes up one file on the tape.  So if you've got four dumps
|>on one tape and you want to restore from the fourth dump, you need to do:
|>
|>    # mt -f /dev/nrmt0h fsf 3
|>
|>Before the restore.


Why not use the 's' flag in the restore command?  This will do the
same thing but save you a command.  From restore (8):

 s       The next argument identifies which dump file on the
         dump media is to be used by restore.  This is useful
         when the dump media has more than one dump image on
         it and not all of them will be restored.
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