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From: nctingue@ndsuvax.UUCP (Mark Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: USING OD's to backup other boxes
Message-ID: <2865@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 89 14:28:50 GMT
References: <9632@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Reply-To: nctingue@ndsuvax.UUCP (Mark Tinguely)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <9632@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> BARNHILL@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>...we thought those lovely huge optical disks might serve to back up some of
>our larger boxes, such as our Apple A/ux box, etc.  We've done ftp back
>and forth, but this is not a very automatic solution, nor is it hard to
>envision batching that would carry this off.

>David Barnhill

Check and see if A/UX has remote dump/restore capabilities. I know Berkeley
released their rmt program (which is already on the NeXT), but they did
not release the dump facilty (must still have AT&T code in it).

With remote dump facilities you can backup a filesystem across the network.



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