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Thanks
Lucien Hercaud
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Objet : NSR is a pile of manure
Auteur : DINMAN_at_ALADDIN-ASI.COM à INTERNET
Date : 15/04/98 15:07
I have the misfortune of being stuck with a DEC UNIX box and nsr.
On a real operating system like HP-UX, I can do backups or recovers
using
the fbackup or frecover verbs, a few switches, and a single graph file.
That's all I need to do anything with a backup or recover operation. To set
up the same thing on DEC UNIX to do backups from cron, I have
to
1) Choose from nsr, nsrmm, or any one of 20 other poorly documented
verbs
1)setup ridiculous .nsr files in all the different directories to
exclude or
include files. On an HP system, all I have to do is use a -g option to
specify a graph file which tells exactly which directories/files to
include
or exclude. That's right, a single file placed anywhere that I want
that is
simple to modify.
2) The man page for 'nsr' and 'save' make no mention of how to specify
the
backup device from the command line. On an HP system with fbackup, all
I
have to do is put a -f switch on the command line with fbackup to tell
it
which of several tape drives to go to.
Are there any alternatives to nsr on the DEC system. Anything that is
decently documented and command line friendly. Anything but nsr.
DEC ALPHA 4100
dec unix 4.0b
Dale Inman
Unix Systems Admin
Aladdin Industries
615-748-3242 v.
615-748-3030 f.
Received on Thu Apr 16 1998 - 11:25:57 NZST