raulin@tdl.UUCP (Raulin Olivera) (03/24/89)
I have 2 Compaq 286's running SCO Xenix. One has a tape drive connected and the other does not. I am trying to do backups on the system without the tape drive by creating cpio files (find . -print | cpio -oBv > cpio.file) and uucp'ing the file to the system with the tape. The problem arises in that the system with tape has limited disk storage on the root file system and the cpio.files are too large to fit. I have a 2nd file system, /u, that has enough space but I cannot get uucp to transfer the file directly to that file system without going through the spool directory on the root file system. I thought that I could circumvent this problem by doing it with uux. Something like (from the taped system) uux "!echo sys1\!/u/tmp/cpio.file | cpio -oBv > /dev/tapedrive". I am not sure of my syntax because I don't have a manual available at the moment but the systax I tried was correct. This blew-up because again the cpio.file was copied to the spool directory of the taped system before the cpio could start. My question is, does anyone know of a way that I can either do my uucp and avoid the root file system or a uux command that might write directly to tape without creating a file on the taped system? =Ralo-> Raulin Olivera
les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) (03/25/89)
In article <103@tdl.UUCP> raulin@tdl.UUCP (Raulin Olivera) writes: >... I am trying to do backups on the system without >the tape drive by creating cpio files (find . -print | cpio -oBv > cpio.file) >and uucp'ing the file to the system with the tape. The problem arises in >that the system with tape has limited disk storage on the root file system >and the cpio.files are too large to fit. I have a 2nd file system, /u, that >has enough space but I cannot get uucp to transfer the file directly to >that file system without going through the spool directory on the root >file system. If you don't mind disrupting other operation you might mount your other partition wherever uucp is putting the tmp file. Otherwise if you have kermit you can tell it where to put the files or even pipe directly through it. I once copied an entire machine using cpio |kermit ----- kermit |cpio (only once because it took most of a weekend but it did beat handling diskettes). Les Mikesell