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From: dd@mips.com (64. Do you hold on to things for which you have no real use?)
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Subject: Re: 'dump'ing NFS mounted partitions?
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Date: 24 Jan 91 18:26:03 GMT
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In article <1991Jan23.153009.3872@javelin.es.com> pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>We just added a Fujitsu 3480 tape drive to backup our Sun systems here.
>Yesterday, we finally received the modified dump/restore from Sun to work with
>the 3480 tapes.  It works great, except for one fact.  It didn't come with
>rdump/rrestore, which is highly needed since many machines need to be backed
>up onto the one machine using the 3480.

You wouldn't need a special rdump, since it's just a link to dump.  If
anything you would need a replacement /etc/rmt on the machine with the
tape drive.

>This is what Sun had to say about it in their documentation:
>
>"Dumping to a remote host does not work at this point.  Mount the filesystem
>using NFS and then dump it."

This is completely bogus.  Dump reads the raw disk partition, so it can't
work over NFS.

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David DiGiacomo, MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA  dd@mips.com