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From: jorgnsn@qucis.queensu.ca (John Jorgensen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: SUMMARY: rdump to remote Exabyte tapes
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Date: 3 Dec 90 15:03:26 GMT
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Last week I asked how I could convince AIX's rdump that a remote
Exabyte tape is big enough to hold a whole dump without switching
tapes.  Both Andrew J. Schorr (schorr@ead.dsa.com) and Andrew T. Como
(como@max.bnl.gov) suggested using the "-d" and "-s" options to rdump,
for tape density and tape size, respectively.  These are not
documented as valid for the AIX rdump, but they work nevertheless.

The command Andy Schorr uses is:

    rdump -0 -u -c -b 32 -d 54000 -s 6000 -f dumphost:/dev/nrst1 <file system>

and Andy Como uses:

    /etc/rdump -u -d54000 -s6000 -0 -fdumphost:/dev/nrst1 <file system>

Thanks for your help,
John Jorgensen		jorgnsn@qucis.queensu.ca	(613) 545 6784
Systems Programmer, Dept. of Computing Science, Queen's University