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In article <BsttoA.493@oceania.com> john@oceania.com (John Robison)  
writes:
> lemson@fnbc.com (David Lemson) writes:
> > rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) writes:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > From my tests, it does seem to work.  The only hitch is that you  
cannot  
> > restore those files on a Sun using SunOS restore command.  You must  
use  
> > rrestore from a NeXT.  restore on the Sun core dumps when it tries to 
> > read that dump block!
> > 
> Well, After all this talk of how easy things are, I decided to
> give it another shot. Here is a (long) summary...
> 
> 1) Set up an "Exabyte server" which is a Sun 4/330 named "pacific".
> 
> 2) Have about 6 NeXTs I want backed up, and I also want pacific backed
> up.
> 
> 3) I was able to get rdump working from NeXTs to pacific just fine.
Me too.  See my earlier posting - make sure you actually specify a  
filesystem with NeXT's dump command.  With Sun's dump you can specify any  
old directory.
> 
> 4) I was *not* able to get rrestore working. (Hints??)
I was able to get rrestore to work just fine.  All I did was just the  
standard rrestore -if sunserver:/dev/nrst0 on the NeXT.  This is from  
NeXTOS 2.1 to SunOS 4.1.2 and 4.1.1.
> 
> 5) I changed my script to use rdump.old instead.

> 
> 6) I can now rdump.old to pacific (the Sun), and restore locally on the
> Sun (if all I need is a file or two.)
> 
I didn't try this, but it's good to know that it works as advertised.

> I am curious if anyone has successfully used rrestore from a NeXT with
> an Exabyte (we have an EXB-8200) connected to a Sun. Although you
> could always move the Exabyte drive to the NeXT with a problem, this is
> really a pain if all you need are a few files. My restore needs are
> commonly to retrieve an old file or subdirectory, not to restore an
> entire disk drive. 
We have the Contemporary Cybernetics OEM 8500 chassis, for reference.

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