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Paul S. Sears writes
> In article <BsAFCr.4Fw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David  
> Lemson) writes:
> =>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...
> 
> I have an Archive Python DAT drive mounted on one of our NeXT servers  
and we  
> do many backups for various machines in the college using rdump from the  
other  
> machines onto the NeXT.  
>
I'd love to know your secret. I was unable to backup a
Sun 4/330, running SunOS 4.1.1 to a NeXT 040 Cube, running
NeXTStep 2.1. The reverse direction also did not work.

Could you provide a sample command for all of us??

Thanks,

John
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