Backing up UNIX Sys V hosts to central Suns

[Russ Poffenberger]

In article <724 at brazos.Rice.edu> hrc63!trw at uunet.uu.net (Trevor Wright) writes:
|X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 92, message 6 of 18
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|Having largely sorted out the centralised backup of our 30 odd Suns onto a
|central 8mm video tape, we have now received some requests from users of
|UNIX System 5 machines (eg ALTOS, Intergraph) to provide them with a
|service.
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|As far as we can see, Sys 5 does not provide 'rdump'-like facilities, and
|its dump command cannot take "host:device" type syntax on the destination
|argument.
|
|This must be a common problem - any suggestions please.
|
|Trevor Wright
|Ops manager
|GEC Marconi Research Centre
|Gt Baddow
|Chelmsford
|Essex UK
|
|yc23%a.gec-mrc.co.uk at nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk  or nfs-relay


How about dumping using a remote shell (rsh) and piping to the drive. ie

rsh remote-machine dump 0fu - /dev/filesystem | dd of=/dev/tape-drive bs=....

Russ Poffenberger
Schlumberger Technologies
poffen at sj.ate.slb.com