There turned out to be many variations on a theme with this one, but what
seemed to come up the most frequently was:
dump 0bdfs 126 54000 /dev/nrst8 13000 filesystem_name
where the key element is the device name:
(chart courtesy of Marisa Pfalz)
Tape Low-Density High-Density
Unit
st0 /dev/rst0 /dev/rst8
st1 /dev/rst1 /dev/rst9
st2 /dev/rst2 /dev/rst10
st3 /dev/rst3 /dev/rst11
st4 /dev/rst4 /dev/rst12
st5 /dev/rst5 /dev/rst13
st6 /dev/rst6 /dev/rst14
st7 /dev/rst7 /dev/rst15
Thanks to all who answered! Original post follows.
Pauline van Winsen
Colin Panisset
Paul Walters
rdm@stars.health
Jean Edgar
Marisa Pfalz
Larry Miller
Mike Frizzell
Timothy Henrion
Pat Cain
Jerry Symanski
Brian Decker
Cecil Pang
Paul Dodd
Gelnn Satchell
David Edward
Richard Mitchell
rwolf@drector.dciem.dnd.ca
Adam Fox
Aline Runde
ORIGINAL POST:
> Sun Managers:
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> Hopefully an easy one for a Monday morning:
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> What are the proper arguments to use with dump on an Exabyte 850x to get
5Gb on
> a tape? I have been unable to locate this in FAQ. I am no longer able to
> complete my backups as the totals are now approx 4Gb.
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>
>
> Brian Terry
>
> bet@justlaw.com
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