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From: nieusma@cs.colorado.edu (Jeff Nieusma)
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Subject: Re: 'dump'ing NFS mounted partitions?
Keywords: idiotic sun answers
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.204424.20048@csn.org>
Date: 24 Jan 91 20:44:24 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.153009.3872@javelin.es.com>
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In article <1991Jan23.153009.3872@javelin.es.com>,
pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes:
|> 
|> "Dumping to a remote host does not work at this point.  Mount the
|> filesystem
|> using NFS and then dump it."
|> 
|> [ stuff deleted ]
|>
|> How else am I supposed to do this?  I've called Sun technical support
|> and a
|> day later, I still have yet to hear back from them.  Is it even
|> possible to
|> do a dump of an NFS mounted partition or is (the) Sun up in the night
|> (heh)?

so what's wrong with doing something like this?

tapehost# rsh machine dump 0[opts]f - | dd of=/dev/tape

You might have to play with the options of dd a bit to make it work, 
but at least it's free and you don't have to deal with the complete
morons who told you to dump an NFS mounted filesystem.

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