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From: jafo@ariel.tummy.com (Sean Reifschneider)
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: 23 Feb 96 14:42:32 GMT
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In article <4gbk1p$a2r@mayumi.iphil.net>,
Miguel A.L. Paraz <map@iphil.net> wrote:
>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?)
I did backups to an HP machine for almost a year including also backing up
my DOS partitions. You really should use NFS. To do this, you need to
synchronize the HP-UX and Linux and FreeBSD /etc/passwd files so that all
users have the same UIDs on the different machines. Then just mount them
up and use fbackup as normal. Remember to use the "Cross NFS mount"
option to fbackup.
It worked fine, but I ended up moving the tape drive to a Linux machine and
have been very happy with it there.
Sean
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