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From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies)
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Subject: Re: Doing backups with dump(1m)
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Date: 30 Oct 90 02:04:16 GMT
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In article <adler.657102184@over> adler@over.caltech.edu (B. Thomas Adler) writes:
>Another problem with dump I have is that the "n" option (notify group
>operator) doesn't really seem to work.  It doesn't notify cluster wide
>and it doesn't accept further input from the keyboard at the terminal
>controlling the dump.

HP broke the "n" option when the ported dump from bsd because they didn't
allow for the additional entries you can find in a sysV style utmp file.

The workaround is to NOT define any users in group operator.

Given the above exception we have had no problems with dump on 7.0.  We use
rdump regularly to backup the filesystems on our hpux 300's.

cheers
mark