I have several alphas that I back up to a dat drive on another alpha. All
running DU 4.0b. Quite a while ago I got a script from this group that, in
summary, does:
vdump -0u -b 60 -f - /usr | rsh tapeserver dd of=/dev/nrmt0h bs=60k
This has worked well for quite a while (though a vdump equivalent to rdump
would be nicer!), but we've started to run into filesystems that are larger
than will fit on one tape. dd will prompt for a second tape, but the
prompt and/or response aren't making it through the vdump datastream. At
that point, everything hangs. Killing the backup job often causes the tape
to go into a permanently hung state requiring a reboot.
Does anyone know if it's possible to use this technique (or a variation) to
make a multi-tape backup?
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Rick Beebe (203) 785-4566
Sr. Network Engineer FAX: (203) 737-4037
ITS-Med Technology Operations Richard.Beebe_at_yale.edu
Yale University School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06510
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Received on Tue Feb 11 1997 - 17:37:31 NZDT