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Hi All,<br />
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I recently posted a question on how to perform incremental backups and restores at: <br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21383072/Backup-Procedures.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21383072/Backup-Procedures.html</a><br />
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I tried it with multiple tapes and everything worked fine. The question is: can I do it with one tape? Just make backups and not rewind?<br />
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Here are the partitions I have:<br />
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ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /<br />
ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /var<br />
ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /mnt1<br />
ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /mnt2<br />
ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /mnt3<br />
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Assuming I want to make a level 0-7 backup and I want to restore something from level 4, can it be done on the same tape?
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Hi All,

I recently posted a question on how to perform incremental backups and restores at: 
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Solaris/Q_21383072.html

I tried it with multiple tapes and everything worked fine. The question is: can I do it with one tape? Just make backups and not rewind?

Here are the partitions I have:

ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /
ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /var
ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /mnt1
ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /mnt2
ufsdump 0ucf /dev/rmt/0n /mnt3

Assuming I want to make a level 0-7 backup and I want to restore something from level 4, can it be done on the same tape?

Incremental Backup using one DLT tape.

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