roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (10/24/87)
[The referenced aritcle was in comp.bugs.4bsd, but comp.unix.wizards seemed a better place for discussion, so I've directed followups there] In article <3067@ubvax.UB.Com> vix@ubvax.UUCP (Paul Vixie) writes (regarding creating multi-volume dumps on disk files): > you'll have to ^Z and rename the file after each volume. Earlier versions of dump had a flag to increment the last character of the file name between volumes. Presumably this was so you could do a 4-tape dump by loading up all four of your tape drives and then telling dump to use /dev/mt0, and increment to mt1, mt2, mt3 as needed, and without human intervention. Of course, I've never actually seen a Unix system with more than one tape transport (although I'm sure they exist). Why was this option taken out of later versions? Seems simple enough to implement, and it was already there. -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016