Re: Sharing a common BACKUP device with UNIX nodes.....

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From: Bill Elgie
Date: Mon, 22 May 1989 01:39

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In article <31427@sri-unix.SRI.COM>, steve@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu (Steven D. Miller) writes:
> To the best of my knowledge, Sun networks certainly *can't* cluster to do
> dumps, at least not in the way you're describing.  Dump can't work over NFS,
> for one thing; it needs access to the raw disk device, and NFS doesn't
> provide that.....

  I may be missing something here (like a qualifier).  But we run rdump bet-
  ween Microvax IIs and a MIPS M/120 (via NFS) with no problems...

  greg pavlov (under borrowed account), fstrf, amherst, ny

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From: elgie@canisius.UUCP (Bill Elgie)
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Subject: Re: Sharing a common BACKUP device with UNIX nodes.....
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