Re: using dump?

["Scott R. Ehrlich" <user=81@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, John Abreau wrote: 

> Hi, Scott. 
> 
> 
> If you used "mt rewind", that would just rewinds the tape, 
> and then it would get overwritten. I specified "mt rewoffl", 
> which rewinds and ejects the tape. Then you insert the next 
> tape for the next day's backups. So the first tape doesn't get 
> overwritten unless you reinsert the same tape. 
> 
> In a real-world situation, you'd actually use a tape library, 
> which would hold multiple tapes, and the mtx command 
> to tell the tape library to grab the ejected tape and insert 
> the next tape. Then you'd only change the tapes once a week 
> (for a 7-tape library) or once a month (for a 30-tape library).