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From: vlr@dynsim2.uucp (Vic Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: remote cpio
Message-ID: <1990Jul28.153110.14759@dynsim2.uucp>
Date: 28 Jul 90 15:31:10 GMT
Organization: Litwin Process Automation, Houston
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root@mjbtn.JOBSOFT.COM (Mark J. Bailey) writes:
>My interest here is that I want to be able to backup my SCO Unix
>system over the ethernet between it and my other unix box using 
>something like cpio that will allow me to span volumes.  If that
>can already be done with existing cpio and rcmd constructs, I would
>love to hear about them.

Try this for backup:

# find ./ -print | cpio -ocv | rcmd node dd of=/dev/rct0

And this for restore:

# rcmd node dd if=/dev/rct0 | cpio -icv

The tape device is rct0 in my examples. The remote machine, node,
will be whatever your remote system name is.
-- 
Dr. Victor L. Rice
Litwin Process Automation