Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!zen!vic
From: vic@zen.co.uk (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: backup HP-UX systems over e-net
Message-ID: <1539@zen.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 89 17:02:44 GMT
References: <263@verdix.verdix.com> <1345@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: vic@zen.co.uk (Victor Gavin)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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In article <1345@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk> al@cs.strath.ac.uk writes:
>In article <263@verdix.verdix.com> nomad@verdix.com (Lee Damon) writes:
>>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.
>>
>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.

We've got our 300's connected on a network with a machine with a .5in tape
drive. We use NFS to mount remote file-systems and then backup them up with 

	(cd / ; find RemoteNode -type f -print | cpio -oacxBC > /dev/rmt/0h)

[Yes, we don't back up the directories because cpio complains a lot; this is
a limitation we live with for now -- we're primarily interested in preserving
user data files.]

At the moment we're looking at these new Exabyte tape drives, but the company
that is distributing them in this country haven't got any for HP computers
(even though there adverts say they have!). They think that they'll have
something Real Soon Now (but don't hold your breath :-).


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