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From: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan)
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Subject: Re: network backup in a heterogeneous environment
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Date: 25 Apr 91 22:39:13 GMT
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In article <1991Apr24.140354.25607@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> kjh@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Kenneth J. Heeres) writes:
>I do have:
>  A large MVS system running IBM's TCP/IP with tape drives up
>  the yazzoo.  This system does not support rdump.
>
>  A VMS system running VMS Ultrix Connection with Exabyte drives.
>  This system does not support rdump.

All that is needed to support rdump is a way of running "/etc/rmt" via
the rcmd(3) library call (ie via rsh(1).  /etc/rmt should be relatively
easy to port to a non-unix environment.  If your VMS or IBM machines
don't support rsh(1) then it gets a little harder...

Duncan