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From: dhale@csm9a.UUCP (Dave Hale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: dump (backup) to optical disks
Keywords: dump backup optical
Message-ID: <2072@csm9a.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 90 00:59:08 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
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I'm about to use dump to optical disks to backup the 660MB hard disk 
in the NeXT that is the network fileserver for our cluster of 4 NeXTs.

df indicates
327380 kbytes out of 446719 used on /dev/sd0a (mounted on /)
 60004 kbytes out of 216311 used on /dev/sd0b (mounted on /clients)

Is anyone willing to share experiences, good or bad, with dumping to 
optical disks?  Has anyone actually restored from optical disks after
a hard disk crash?  More importantly, has anyone had dump/restore fail
them?
-- 
Dave Hale    dhale@csm9a.colorado.edu    (303) 273-3408
Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO   80401