Re: dump and rdump

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From: Rich Winkel
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 22:26

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In <BsA2CB.B93@oceania.com> john@oceania.com (John Robison) writes:
>Alain Plante writes
>> 	I'm trying to backup a few Next Machines using rdump on a 
>> sun Sparc 2. 
>>
>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.

Eh?  I've been dumping next's to sun exabyte for a couple months.
Is there something I need to know???  It seemed to run without errors.

Rich

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