peter@aucs.uucp (Peter Steele) (08/08/90)
We have a new Exabyte 8mm tape unit on our MIPS machine and will soon
be getting one for our Sun. The MIPS has 4 gigabytes of disk storage.
We've not yet decided on a backup procedure for the machine, but if
we decide to do incrementals we would ideally like to be able to put
everything on one tape. However, I don't see how dump can be used for
this--it always starts a new dump at the start of a tape. Has anyone
out there devised a way to do multifile dumps? I'd appreciate hearing
any comments from netland.
Btw, we will likely have to do dumps on an inactive system. The MIPS
machine is being used for a large Oracle database and the only safe
way to back it up is when the system is idle. I would like to do
full backups every night, but it will take more than one tape for
a full backup so incremental dumps are the only solution I can see
if we want to avoid downtime during the day.
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Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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