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From: elgie@canisius.UUCP (Bill Elgie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Sharing a common BACKUP device with UNIX nodes.....
Message-ID: <2368@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 01:39:19 GMT
References: <31427@sri-unix.SRI.COM>
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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In article <31427@sri-unix.SRI.COM>, steve@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu (Steven D. Miller) writes:
> To the best of my knowledge, Sun networks certainly *can't* cluster to do
> dumps, at least not in the way you're describing.  Dump can't work over NFS,
> for one thing; it needs access to the raw disk device, and NFS doesn't
> provide that.....

  I may be missing something here (like a qualifier).  But we run rdump bet-
  ween Microvax IIs and a MIPS M/120 (via NFS) with no problems...

  greg pavlov (under borrowed account), fstrf, amherst, ny