kpt@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kevin Twidle) (02/05/91)
How can I backup my SVR4 system to a tape on a Sun? There did not seem to be a dump host:dev type command. The only thing that I could think of was to mount an RFS partition from another machine with a tape drive, but my Sun only has nfs! Is there anyway around this? Maybe I should use gnu tar. Kevin -- ----- Kevin Twidle G8RKU Tel: +44 71 589 5111 x5068 Fax: +44 71 581 8024 Dept of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, England Email: kpt@doc.ic.ac.uk, kpt%uk.ac.ic.doc@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk, ..!ukc!icdoc!kpt "It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in"
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (02/10/91)
In article <KPT.91Feb4172646@dirty.doc.ic.ac.uk> kpt@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kevin Twidle) writes: | How can I backup my SVR4 system to a tape on a Sun? | | There did not seem to be a dump host:dev type command. The only thing | that I could think of was to mount an RFS partition from another | machine with a tape drive, but my Sun only has nfs! | | Is there anyway around this? Maybe I should use gnu tar. If it all fits on one tape you can just (for instance): find / -mtime -7 -print | rsh tapemach dd ibs=200k obs=100k of=/dev/tape -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me