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From: mamros@cavdog.enet.dec.com (Shawn Mamros)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: remote dumps started via cron
Keywords: dump,restore,cron,rsh
Message-ID: <9698@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: 28 Mar 90 13:37:52 GMT
References: <692@mpirbn.UUCP>
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In article <692@mpirbn.UUCP>, p539wob@mpirbn.UUCP (Wolfgang Barth) writes:
> We've a VAXStation3100 and some DECStations3100 (running under Ultrix V3.1/
> UWS2.1) and want to hold a copy of some drive partitions of the VAX on
> a DECStation drive. [...]
> 
> We tried to do this with:
> dump 0uf - filesystem | rsh dec "(cd /backup ; restore xf - )"

Try running it from the DECstation instead and using rsh on the dump command:
rsh vax dump 0uf - filesystem | (cd /backup ; restore xf - )

I've run dump via rsh before - it works very well.

-Shawn Mamros
mamros@aiag.enet.dec.com or mamros@cavdog.enet.dec.com