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From: al@cs.strath.ac.uk (Alan Lorimer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: backup HP-UX systems over e-net
Message-ID: <1345@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Mar 89 12:55:54 GMT
References: <263@verdix.verdix.com>
Reply-To: al@cs.strath.ac.uk
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
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In article <263@verdix.verdix.com> nomad@verdix.com (Lee Damon) writes:
>We need to back up some _very_ large disks and it takes way to long
>using /etc/backup (like 12+ hours - we only have cart' tape
>drives...).  I am trying remshing to a dd on a BSD system, but that is
>slow and won't enable us to use multi-volume backups.
>
>What I am looking for is something like RDUMP, or any kind of _fast_
>backup. Basicly something that would preserve multi-volumes and would
>not take more than a few hours to backup 500MB.
>
Hear Hear......... Hope someone at HP is listening. Those of us with
large installations can see no reason to have to buy a 9144 tape drive
for every system with a disc, especially when there is a perfectly
adequate 6250bpi drive attached to something else. Come on HP, let's
see the 9000/300 series integrate that little bit better with existing
systems but allowing remote access to backup equipment - you've given
us dump, so why not rdump?

Alan.
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