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From: robert@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Roberto Togneri)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: dump/restore via PC-NFS
Message-ID: <robert.672020174@uniwa>
Date: 19 Apr 91 00:16:14 GMT
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Hi,
   We have a MOD device connected to one of our PC's which also
runs PC-NFS. The MOD has a capacity of up to 1.2 Gb which makes it
a good candidate as a dump medium (compared to a 150 Mb tape drive).
Now I can actually create a dump file on the MOD as follows:

rsh rama /etc/dump 0f - >dumpfile

where rama is one of our Suns. However I can't get restore to read it.
The obvious:

rsh rama /etc/restore tf - <dumpfile

doesn't work. I think restore tries to open /dev/tty, which isn't
defined when using rsh. I would also like to use the interactive
option of restore but I think this is impossible (since stdin is being
used to source the dumpfile). Is there a solution? Of course I can always
copy dumpfile to a mounted Sun filesystem but this is silly if I dump
a whole filesystem (dumpfile is big!).

Any help welcome!,
roberto
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Dr. Roberto Togneri                         Phone: +61-9-380-2535
Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
The University of Western Australia         Fax:   +61-9-380-1065
NEDLANDS WA 6009 Australia                  Email: robert@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au