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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo WBAK woes
Message-ID: <19053@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 14:13:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 14:13:09 1987
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Subject: Re: Apollo WBAK woes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
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> Why?  I agree, there should be a dump and a rdump for the Apollos, but
> why is wbak inadequate.  I have over 4 Gigabytes and it works fine.

I'd like wbak better if you could make it backup to a remote tape drive
over tcp/ip.  We have 9-track drives on non-Apollo Unix boxes that we'd
prefer to backup to instead of the streamer cartridges on the Apollos.

With dump/restore (actually rdump/rrestore) we can backup any of our
Unix boxes to any other Unix box that has a 9-track drive.  No such luck
with separate Domain rings connected only via ethernet gateway servers:
the operators have to run around to each ring to get to a drive on that
ring.  Yeccchhh!

Mike Khaw
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