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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!news.jhu.edu!aplcenmp!netnews.jhuapl.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail From: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc Subject: Re: Want to backup FreeBSD from NT ? Read This! Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc Date: 17 Apr 1996 17:31:37 -0400 Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4l3nvp$s5n@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <aak2.829444166@Ra.MsState.Edu> Reply-To: jaitken@vt.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: csugrad.cs.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:102138 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17666 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc:8983 I have a related question. Suppose you had a FreeBSD box serving as a backup "server" of sorts in that it had a tape drive attached to it, and performed nightly backups of other machines by rsh'ing to the machine and firing off a dump (piping the results into dd on the local box). Now, suppose you add a bunch of NT machines to your setup, and assume that you want to back them up regularly. Taking the tape drive off the FreeBSD machine is a hassle; you'd rather just "throw them in the rotation" somehow. Could you use the vnconfig(8) program to create a "synonym" for /dev/rmt0, and then NFS-export that file? If so, could you then NFS mount it on an NT box and simply write your backup to the NFS-mounted "drive"? Ok, ok, so it would be far easier to simply buy another tape drive to use on the NT box, but let's assume (for now) that that isn't an option. -- Jeff Aitken jaitken@vt.edu