Typical great response... The idea is to vdump to standard out and then
pipe the data to the machine with tape via rsh and dd. Here's a succinct
explanation from Miguel Fliguer:
> vdump -0v -b 60 -f - -D /usr/users | rsh YYY dd of=/dev/rmt0h bs=60k
> where
> -0v : Level 0 dump, verbose
> -b 60 : Block factor (60 k)
> -f - : Redirect vdump output to stdout
> -D : Directory flag to be vdumped (you can omit this if you´re dumping
> an entire file system)
>
>The redirected output is sent via rsh to the remote dd comand and
>transferred to the tape (in this case, /dev/rmt0h). Note the matching block
factor (bs=60k)
Thanks to:
Jeff Berliner [jeff_at_popmail.med.nyu.edu]
Fliguer, Miguel [M_Fliguer_at_miniphone.com.ar]
mhuff_at_colltech.com
Ken Cain [Ken.Cain_at_mci.com]
Daniel Monjar
Manager, Systems
Organon Teknika
Mailto:Daniel.Monjar_at_orgtek.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monjar, Daniel [mailto:Monjar_at_orgtek.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 1998 3:34 PM
> To: 'alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov'
> Subject: remote backup of advfs file systems
>
>
> How do you handle remote backup of advfs file systems? I
> went looking for
> rvdump (and even vrdump) and am a bit surprised that they don't exist.
>
> Daniel Monjar
> Manager, Systems
> Organon Teknika
> Mailto:Daniel.Monjar_at_orgtek.com
>
Received on Thu Oct 22 1998 - 20:23:17 NZDT