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From: matt@gecko.oes.orst.edu (Matt Curfman)
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Subject: Re: [386bsd] Remote tape
Date: 13 Feb 1993 20:54:42 GMT
Organization: Oregon State University, Corvallis OR USA
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In article <g89r4222.729621135@kudu> g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I just wanted to ask around if anyone is successfully using the
>remote tape facilities for backups on a 386bsd system (ie. rdump
>rrestore ( well I hope you haven't had to use rrestore ;-))
>
>Thanks,
>Geoff.

I have used the rdump succesfully to dump my system to an Exebyte 8mm tape
backup.  And while I haven't needed reason to use rrestore (smile), I did
test it on a small sample of files and it appeared to work fine.

This was to and from a Sun SparcStation 1+

-mc
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Matt Curfman                                    Almanac Information Archivist 
matt@gecko.oes.orst.edu                     Oregon State University Extension