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Article #348Re: dump and rdump
From: David Lemson
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 04:33
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 04:33
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john@oceania.com (John Robison) writes: >> I'm trying to backup a few Next Machines using rdump on a >> sun Sparc 2. >> >RTFM "man dump" Yep. Major hassle. I even tried going around rdump by executing the following on a Sparc 2 with a tape drive on it: rsh nextmachine "dump sf 999999 -" | dd of=/dev/nrst0 But no go...the dump is not readable (in fact, restore seems to core dump when it tries to read it!) If anyone else gets this to work, let me know... By the way, our solution to this is to use gnutar on the NeXT piped through to dd on the local machine. The restores are VERY slow, but they work. gnutar was necessary because we have filenames that are upwards of 200 chars long and tar's limit is 100 chars. gnutar has a different header format and can accept very long filenames. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!lemson From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: dump and rdump Message-ID: <BsAFCr.4Fw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <a_plante.712524076@clouso> <BsA2CB.B93@oceania.com> Distribution: na Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1992 04:33:49 GMT Lines: 25