[comp.sys.apollo] How do I backup to remote UNIX host?

kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Kuck And Associates) (06/08/90)

We have eight Unix hosts, one Apollo DN10000, and no Domain/OS experts.  We
have a 2 Gb 8mm cartridge tape drive on a Unix host, and I would like to use it
for backing up the 700 Mb disk on Apollo.  I tried:

wbak -stdout -nhi //quantum | rsh illiant dd of=/dev/rcartridge ibs=4k obs=64k

But it fails after a few minutes with "write error 0" (I believe it's dd that
prints this error message).

Would someone please enlighten me with a solution?

Patrick Wolfe   (pat@kai.com, kailand!pat)
System Programmer/Operations Manager, Kuck & Associates