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Subject: Re: Submission for mod-computers-apollo
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Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 12:11:17 EST
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dennis@nosc.UUCP (Dennis Cottel) writes:
>Message-ID: <518@cod.UUCP>
>Date: 24 Feb 87 22:50:52 GMT
>
>I would like to backup our Apollo file systems to our central VAX BSD
>...
>...
>................................................... Or has someone
>ported rdump to the Apollos?  Why isn't it included with DOMAIN/IX?

Nat Mishkin answered this well in another article.

>Apollo suggested that I use tar and pipe the output to "rsh dd" on the
>VAX.  However, tar can't select files by modification date.

OK, then, how about using find(1) with the appropriate arguments and shoving the
list of files to /sys5/bin/cpio , which would then rsh the dd to the tape?  Granted,
cpio is sys5 specific, but this should work correctly.