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From: corrigan@net1.ucsd.edu (Mike Corrigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Backup over net (Was Re: NFS Super users?)
Message-ID: <1853@ucsd.EDU>
Date: 20 Jul 89 19:59:04 GMT
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In article <240042@grlab.UUCP> scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) writes:
>
>>>>I want a nice easy way to specify some remote directories when doing
>>>>system backups and such...
>>>
>>>The way to do that is not to use NFS for backups! Use rdump to backup
>>>files to a remote tape drive or other backup device.
>>
>>HP don't support rdump!
>Would/will it support REMOTE FILES to be backed up to a LOCAL TAPE DRIVE? What
>I'm trying to do is get files off of 2 systems onto 1 backup. (backup my
>home directory and some other people's plus some other stuff spread
>across 2 systems).
>

 Yes, rdump will dump multiple remote filesystems to the same local tape:-|

From localhost:

% remsh remotehost1 rdump 0uf localhost:/dev/rmt/B0hn /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 ; remsh remotehost2 rdump 0uf localhost:/dev/rmt/B0hn /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0

(the B in the tape device name isn't necessary)

dumps filesystems /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 on remotehost1 and /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0 on
remotehost2 to the same tape on localhost.