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From: pvo3366@neptune.uucp (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: USING OD's to backup other boxes
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Date: 29 Aug 89 05:22:55 GMT
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In article <9632@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> BARNHILL@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
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>Anyone tried anything so that we don't reinvent the wheel?
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It works, but hardly recommended as a primary backup:

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From pvo1478 Thu Feb 23 22:33:20 1989
To: next-users@CS.ORST.EDU, orst-next@CS.ORST.EDU
Subject: rmt
Status: O
 
`rmt' seems to be pretty healthy in 0.8.
`rdumps' and `restores' to/from the optical disk are possible.
 
I don't know how much utility this will end up having--but it does work.

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sunhost% time dump 0f richnerd@nextbox:/MyDisk/Homes/richnerd/optb/dumps/sunhost/sd0a/890223Level0 /dev/rsd0a
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Feb 23 20:28:35 1989
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /MyDisk/Homes/richnerd/optb/dumps/sunhost/sd0a/890223Level0 on host richnerd
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 8208 blocks (4.01MB) on 0.11 tape(s).
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: DUMP: 8148 blocks (3.98MB) on 1 tape
  DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
  DUMP: Tape rewinding
1.2u 4.9s 1:05 9% 0+136k 0+5io 0pf+0w
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nextbox> pwd
/MyDisk/Homes/richnerd/optb/dumps/sunhost/sd0a
nextbox> ll
total 4082
drwxr-xr-x  2 richnerd         1024 Feb 23 21:09 ./
drwxr-xr-x  6 richnerd         1024 Feb 23 20:26 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 richnerd      4167680 Feb 23 20:35 890223Level0
nextbox> 
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(The dump command was SunOS 4.0 syntax.)
Note that the transfer rate was > 64 Kb/s.
The file must already exist. (touch it first)
Remote, interactive restoring from this file worked fine.

Paul

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Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251