I asked this question about a month ago and here is one of the answers I
got. I posted the backup script we use at the end of this message.
Mike
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>From marblek_at_city.ci.worcester.ma.us Fri Nov 1 20:28:47 1996
>To: alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov
>Subject: SUMMA: vdump to a remote host??
>Followup-To: poster
>
>Another unsolved mystery, and everyone I talk to seems to not have a solution.
>
>Thanks go out to:
>
>Mandell Degerness
>&
>Jan Pope
>
<Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:37:00 -0400
<From: Tom Barkanic <intrepid!tb_at_uunet.uu.net>
<To: Mike Hatz <mhatz_at_raven.phs.com>
<Subject: Re: Remote vdump (rvdump?)
<
<
<mhatz_at_raven.phs.com said:
<> I can't seem to make vdump work on a remote system (ala rdump). The
<
<This is what I use:
<rsh remote_node /sbin/vdump -0 -u -F 16 -f - /usr | dd of=/dev/rmt0h bs=60k
<--
<Tom Barkanic
<Raytheon E-Systems
<St. Petersburg, FL
<mailto:tb_at_eci-cec.com
This is the backup script we use for our full system backups. Waldo is
a node that has the appropriate entries in its .rhosts file to allow
this machine named jinn to spew backups at it.
#!/bin/sh
# Level 0 VDUMP to remote node waldo
# This is a combination of a local vdump piped through dd to waldo
# mhatz 1-Oct-1996
#
/sbin/vdump -0 -C -u -v -f - / | rsh waldo dd of=/dev/nrmt0h bs=60k
/sbin/vdump -0 -C -u -v -f - /usr | rsh waldo dd of=/dev/nrmt0h bs=60k
/sbin/vdump -0 -C -u -v -f - /var | rsh waldo dd of=/dev/nrmt0h bs=60k
Received on Sat Nov 02 1996 - 05:52:52 NZDT