Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Remote dumps from SVR4? Message-ID: <3103@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 91 20:09:59 GMT References: Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Distribution: comp Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 17 In article kpt@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kevin Twidle) writes: | How can I backup my SVR4 system to a tape on a Sun? | | There did not seem to be a dump host:dev type command. The only thing | that I could think of was to mount an RFS partition from another | machine with a tape drive, but my Sun only has nfs! | | Is there anyway around this? Maybe I should use gnu tar. If it all fits on one tape you can just (for instance): find / -mtime -7 -print | rsh tapemach dd ibs=200k obs=100k of=/dev/tape -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me