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Alain Plante writes
> Hello all,
> 
> 	I'm trying to backup a few Next Machines using rdump on a 
> sun Sparc 2. 
>
That's your problem.

RTFM "man dump"

In the fine print, it says:
=======
     Because of the interworkings of rmt and rdump, it is only
     possible to run rdump from one NeXT machine to another.
     This is in part due to the fact that the ioctls for the
     removable disk differ from the mag tape ioctls available
     with rmt, and in part due to the fact that NFS does not
     implement remote device ioctls.
=======

Whatever the excuse, uh, reason, that means you have to buy *two*
backup devices instead of one if you want automated backups in a mixed
environment.  

And that really sucks.

Later,

John
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