barad@tulane.tulane.edu (Herb Barad) (06/19/88)
I have a Mac II running A/UX connected to a Sun 3/280 server. The server has a tape drive and I'd like to backup the Mac II this way. However, A/UX does not seem to have a dump command (even better would be rdump). Then I mounted the Mac II file system on the Sun (via NFS) and tried to use dump(8) - but dump complained about a bad magic number (or something like that). What is the best way of backing up a Mac II when you have it hooked up to a Sun with a tape drive? By the way, I still don't have the set of manuals yet. Can anyone please explain the Eschatology partitions? I partitioned my XP150 as one SINGLE A/UX partition: that is, no eschatology (or Mac_HFS) partitions. Can I make use of this eschatology scheme? Do I have to repartition my disk? I'd appreciate ANY help from those more elightened than I... (I guess that's most of you...) -- Herb Barad Electrical Engineering Dept., Tulane Univ. INTERNET: barad@tulane.edu USENET: barad@tulane.uucp
fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) (06/21/88)
In article <143@tulane.tulane.edu> barad@tulane.UUCP (Herb Barad) writes: >I have a Mac II running A/UX connected to a Sun 3/280 server. The server >has a tape drive and I'd like to backup the Mac II this way. > [stuff omitted -fnf] >What is the best way of backing up a Mac II when you have it hooked up to >a Sun with a tape drive? The "best way" is probably I matter of debate. I have had my Backup and Restore Utility (bru) ported to A/UX for over six months, but have not been inclined to invest the time or money to produce an enduser product (with appropriate documentation and packaging) for the A/UX marketplace, until I am convinced that such a marketplace exists. Bru handles remote magtapes, so it would work just fine in this sort of environment, particularly since A/UX doesn't yet support any sort of magnetic tape devices of it's own. It also has automatic formatting of floppies (if you are stuck with backing up to 50-100 floppies like I am), transparent compression of files, and lots of other nice features. However, if there was sufficient interest in a minimal distribution of nothing more than an installation floppy and a copy of the manual pages, then my marketing folks could probably be convinced to put together such a distribution for "expert only users". Kind of like the "software in a baggie" distributions of the early microcomputer days. Call them at (602) 820-0042 and make your wishes known. Disclaimer: I have tried to minimize the commercial content of this message and maximize the information content. -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1346 West 10th Place, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA # noao!nud!fishpond!fnf (602) 921-1113