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From: tgilbert@news.abq.bdm.com (Todd Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Tape backup across systems
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:00:33 -0600
Organization: BDM Federal, Inc.
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In article <4kcpmf$g74@mark.ucdavis.edu>, fzshenau@rocky.ucdavis.edu
(Gregory Shenaut) wrote:
> I think you are trying to do it backwards--the "host:file" syntax
> is for the "f" flag:
>
> dump 0ufB hostname:/dev/nrst0 10000000 /filesystem
>
> I may be wrong--I generally use tar for backups.
You're not wrong.
>
> If you want to back up a remote system's disk on the local
> tapedrive, I suppose you could do it telneting to the remote
> system and running the command there, or by using rsh.
I use rsh to invoke a script that runs the rdump command.
I can't imagine simply rsh'ing the rdump command would
have a problem (other than maybe needing an explicit path).
>
> Oh--I seem to remember a glitch where the "rmt" program needs
> to have a link from /etc--has this been fixed? If not, you will
> need to do something like "ln -s /usr/sbin/rmt /etc".
I haven't seen this on any of the machines I administer (SGI,
SunOS, Solaris, AIX)
regards,
Todd Gilbert
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