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From: steve@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu (Steven D. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Sharing a common BACKUP device with UNIX nodes.....
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Date: 22 May 89 13:04:29 GMT
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What exactly do you say when you do the dump?  Dump should need to go
through the raw filesystem; at least, any dump program I've ever seen
(tar and cpio don't count) has used the raw filesystem.  I'm not saying
that you can't do a rdump from a machine (whose filesystems you may have
mounted via NFS) to a tape drive somewhere else... but if someone is actually
using NFS to read the files for the dump, I will be mightily surprised.

	-Steve


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