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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!dsbc.icl.co.uk!dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk!ejr From: ejr@dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk (Ed Randall) 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: 21 Feb 1996 18:04:44 GMT Organization: ICL, Bracknell, UK Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4gfmrs$fbt@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> References: <4gbk1p$a2r@mayumi.iphil.net> <4gd0oc$965@stealth.romoidoy.com> Reply-To: E.J.Randall.bra0126@x400gw.icl.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.hp.hpux:33704 comp.os.linux.networking:29505 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14276 H J Lu (hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote: : Miguel A.L. Paraz (map@iphil.net) 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? : On your Linux machine, do : # tar cvvf hphost:/dev/tapedrive file1 file2 ..... : I did it from a Linux machine to a SunOS 4.1.4. I don't see why HP-UX : shouldn't work. Just make sure it has rmt. If not, install gnutar : on HP-UX. FreeBSD should support it also unless its tar is broken. : In that case, install gnutar on FreeBSD. Or using just plain vanilla utilities : tar cvf - <filespec> | rsh hphost 'dd of=/dev/tapedrive' Ed