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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Don't backup from root !
Message-ID: <1095@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 6 Jan 91 00:05:56 GMT
References: <12886@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1092@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <FISCHER.91Jan5183537@thiele.iesd.auc.dk>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <FISCHER.91Jan5183537@thiele.iesd.auc.dk>
	fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes:
>It has already been written. It's called "dump". Nice, isn't it?

Not for us.

(1) At least in the 1.0 release, dump has not worked reliably.
    This may have changed--we don't have 2.0 yet and we don't
    know when we're getting it--or our NeXTstations.  Our
    procurement has been held up... something about verifying
    that NeXT hires a certain number of women and minorities.
    (Government regulations, y'know.)

(2) While it may be ok for a standalone system, in our bizarre
    networked environment, it's not always reasonable--dump and
    rdump are specially hacked by NeXT (the documentation even
    says that it won't work with non-NeXT machines).  Generally,
    the backup device is not going to be attached to the machine
    being backed up, and may not even be on a NeXT--I have a lot
    more faith in tar from an NFS-mounted partition.  Will NeXT
    guarantee full interchangeability with Suns, for example?

					-=EPS=-