MATLEVAN@EKU (Jerry LeVan) (10/13/90)
Backup, the continuing saga. I have a 80 meg disk which holds my X11R4 source,object code and executables. I have been trying to find a fast easy way to backup the system I tryed the pax command: pax -w -b 8k -v -f /dev/rmt/tc1 . After 2.5 hours I got: . . . ./src/fix-9 ./src/fixincludes ./JerryRead pax: Ready for volume 3 pax: Type "go" when ready to proceed (or "quit" to abort): go pax: [offset 67m+431k+0]: Continuing pax: Ready for volume 4 pax: Type "go" when ready to proceed (or "quit" to abort): go pax: [offset 67m+431k+0]: Continuing pax: Ready for volume 5 pax: Type "go" when ready to proceed (or "quit" to abort): quit pax: Aborted I think I got it all, df -t gives /X11R4 /dev/dsk/c5d0s0 9204 blocks 27857 i-nodes total 147278 blocks 32640 i-nodes It looks like nothing was written to volume3 and pax immediately asked for volume4, did nothing and asked for volume5 did nothing and I gave up and "quit". The 67 meg looks right and since the first tape reported 37m + 736k + 0,it looks like there are 7 meg left on the second tape. Question: why does pax keep asking for tapes and how can we tell when the copy is complete? Can pax be speeded up? Dump.bsd dumped the whole disk in a little over an hour.(but you gotta get the whole partition). ...Jerry ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jerry LeVan | Phone:(606)-622-1931 | | Department of Computer Science | | | Eastern Kentucky University | Email:matlevan@eku.bitnet | | Richmond Ky 40475 | | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "The series converges so slowly that it actually diverges." | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------