Thanks to all who replied, hope I don't miss anyone.
John Francini
Rob Shurtleff
Jim Belonis
Alan Angulo
Dave Wolinski
Dr. Tom Blinn
Sung Moon Kang
Christopher Banal
Anthony Miller
Vincenzo Arena
Ok, sorry about the long time it took me to summarize, I did get an answer
like right away, but didn't get a change to test it all out until now.
Ok, I wanted to do a vdump remotly, much like the rdump command does. This
is not possible with the current versions of vdump. It does sound like
this may be an added feature in future releases of the OS.
However there is a work around. Just use pipes to do the dump. Here is an
example dump line.
vdump <arguments) - | rsh <tape-machine> dd bs=<vdump-blocksize>
of=<tape-device>
However, someone did mention that without an external SCSI card, I
wouldn't be able to restore from that backup, unless I got the machine
started. DOH. Never thought of that.To bad DEC just doesn't put an external
SCSI port on this line of workstations.
There were a few other ways, I could NFS mount the partitions, but doing
so with / would get to be a pain.
My final solution was to just run a cron job on one of my servers that
backs up the important dynamic data. Other than that bit of data, I can
just reinstall the OS. I keep 99 percent of the stuff that matters on a
server that gets backed up anyways.
Original Message:
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We recently added a few new machines that came with AdvFS already setup on
the partiions.
I need to do regular backups of these machines. I know that dump, rdump
will not do AdvFS partitions.
So, I need to use vdump, I assume.
How do I do a remote dump with vdump? I used to just use rdump to do remote
dumps, is there an equivelent to this for vdump?
I used to just do this to backup a machine.
/usr/sbin/rdump 0cdf 61000 truckin:/dev/nrmt0h /
How could I do that with vdump? I already tried.
vdump -0Cuf truckin:/dev/nrmt0h /
But it doesn't like the truckin: part.
Says its an invalid device.
Any help here? I just have the horrible feeling one of these machines is
going to conk out on me before I figure out how to back them up.
I can't hoook my tape drive up to them either because these DEC
workstations don't have external scsi ports.
will summarize of course.
-grant
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Grant Schoep, grant_at_storm.com
System/Network Administrator
L3 Communications Telemetry & Instrumentation
San Jose,CA (408)271-0800, Ext. 135
Received on Fri Mar 12 1999 - 16:50:44 NZDT