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From: rbickers@intercenter.net (Ron Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Backups --- please help.
Date: 8 Aug 1996 13:46:47 GMT
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nobody@nowhere wrote:
: I need to mount a remote SCSI tape drive on a Unix system running BSD/OS 2.0. 
: The tape drive is located on a server running BSD/OS 2.1. When I make backups 
: of the BSD/OS 2.1 server I use the dump command to the device /dev/nrst0.

Nobody,

Take a look at Amanda (man amanda).  She's an interface for the dump command
that allows backups of many networked machines on a single tape drive.

Ron.