trw@uunet.uu.net (Trevor Wright) (08/04/89)
Having largely sorted out the centralised backup of our 30 odd Suns onto a central 8mm video tape, we have now received some requests from users of UNIX System 5 machines (eg ALTOS, Intergraph) to provide them with a service. As far as we can see, Sys 5 does not provide 'rdump'-like facilities, and its dump command cannot take "host:device" type syntax on the destination argument. This must be a common problem - any suggestions please. Trevor Wright Ops manager GEC Marconi Research Centre Gt Baddow Chelmsford Essex UK yc23%a.gec-mrc.co.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk or nfs-relay
davidsen@crdgw1.ge.com (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (08/19/89)
The SysV machines should have rcmd, the functional equivalent of the rsh command. They also have named pipes. Therefore start one job like this: cat /dev/rdump.FIFO | rcmd bigsun dd obs=126b of=/dev/rst8 which sucks on the pipe and then sends to dd running on the Sun. Start the real dump by doing this: dump 0ufk /dev/rdump.FIFO 55000 /dev/yourfilesys Note that the size given dump is suitable for DC600 tapes, change as needed for your physical devices. I'm actually using this because my tape drive on a SysV machine is not currently functional.
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (08/21/89)
In article <724@brazos.Rice.edu> hrc63!trw@uunet.uu.net (Trevor Wright) writes: |X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 92, message 6 of 18 | |Having largely sorted out the centralised backup of our 30 odd Suns onto a |central 8mm video tape, we have now received some requests from users of |UNIX System 5 machines (eg ALTOS, Intergraph) to provide them with a |service. | |As far as we can see, Sys 5 does not provide 'rdump'-like facilities, and |its dump command cannot take "host:device" type syntax on the destination |argument. | |This must be a common problem - any suggestions please. | |Trevor Wright |Ops manager |GEC Marconi Research Centre |Gt Baddow |Chelmsford |Essex UK | |yc23%a.gec-mrc.co.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk or nfs-relay How about dumping using a remote shell (rsh) and piping to the drive. ie rsh remote-machine dump 0fu - /dev/filesystem | dd of=/dev/tape-drive bs=.... Russ Poffenberger Schlumberger Technologies poffen@sj.ate.slb.com