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Re: Dump hangs on my system



> 
> 
> My nightly backup script seems to be hanging in the middle of its first
> "dump":
[...]
>   DUMP: estimated 14710 tape blocks on 0.01 tape(s).
[...]
> Pete

dump is asking for another tape!
You will have to inform, in the command line, the size of your "tape".
See the man pages.
Probably dump was first developed such a long time ago, that the
"default" tape size is very tiny!

Marcia

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