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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!rocky.ucdavis.edu!not-for-mail From: fzshenau@rocky.ucdavis.edu (Gregory Shenaut) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Tape backup across systems Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.admin Date: 9 Apr 1996 04:39:43 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4kcpmf$g74@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <3169DFA6.2295@pgh.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rocky.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3058 comp.unix.admin:40358 Brian Hess (brian@pgh.net) wrote: : I am trying to back up multiple machines from one tape drive on one : machine. I have looked at the dump man pages which come up when I do a : man on rdump and they offer no examples. I have tried: : : rdump 0ufB /dev/nrst0 10000000 hostname:/filesystem : : and this has not worked. I do have pretty tight wrappers but even when : I removed them and put the tape drive host in the backup host's : hosts.equiv file it did not help. Does anyone have any examples of : this? I think you are trying to do it backwards--the "host:file" syntax is for the "f" flag: dump 0ufB hostname:/dev/nrst0 10000000 /filesystem If you want to back up a remote system's disk on the local tapedrive, I suppose you could do it telneting to the remote system and running the command there, or by using rsh. I may be wrong--I generally use tar for backups. Oh--I seem to remember a glitch where the "rmt" program needs to have a link from /etc--has this been fixed? If not, you will need to do something like "ln -s /usr/sbin/rmt /etc". -- Greg Shenaut -- gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu