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From: Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Backing up to HP/UX from Linux and FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 08:27:04 -0500
Organization: Armstrong International Inc.
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Miguel A.L. Paraz wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I've got a HP 9000 box with a DDS drive.  I want to use this to back > > up
> my Linux and FreeBSD systems across the LAN.  Mounting the other >    > systems
> through NFS would seem to cause problems with the uid/gid's when doing > a tar
> (is this right?)
> 
> Is there some kind of client I can run on the other machines so they
> can back up onto the HP machine?

I've done it before.  Linux to HPUX DDS drive.
On Linux, I just did a "tar -cvf hp:/dev/rmt/0h ."

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
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