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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: rdump and/or rrestore on SGI's 4D machines
Message-ID: <91Jun29.234245edt.1042@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Keywords: rdump rrestore
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 30 Jun 91 03:42:52 GMT
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If they're the versions of dump and restore that we run (and they
should be:-), then they should handle remote dumps just fine -- none
of our SGIs has an attached Exabyte.  Just provide a "hostname:"
before the device, ensure that the remote end has an /etc/rmt and that
dump is setuid root (needs to talk to the remote rshd to run rmt, I
think).  If I remember right, both dump and restore still use the
annoying old syntax for hostname.user, so if hostname has a '.' in it,
you *have* to provide the .user even if it is the same as the local
end.

	Mark.