Thanks to all who responded. The consensus is to pipe "vdump" output to
"rsh" which invokes "vrestore" (for copies) or "dd" (for backups) to execute
on the remote machine. For example:
vdump -f - -0u -b 32 /usr | rsh backup_host "dd bs=32k of=/dev/nrmt0h"
or
vdump -f - -D /usr/staff/fred | rsh hostname "/sbin/vrestore -xf -D
/usr/staff/fred"
Thanks to
Arno Hahma [arno_at_utu.fi]
Ian Mortimer [ian_at_physics.uq.edu.au]
Dr. Tom Blinn, [tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com]
Maiello, Robert [maiellor_at_toysrus.com]
Jim Belonis [belonis_at_dirac.phys.washington.edu]
Fliguer, Miguel [M_Fliguer_at_miniphone.com.ar]
Stanley Horwitz [stan_at_astro.ocis.temple.edu]
Jason Manchenton [MANCHENTON_at_A1.TCH.Harvard.edu]
Graham Allan [ALLAN_at_mnhep.hep.umn.edu]
Grant Van Dyck [vandyck_at_zk3.dec.com]
Received on Tue Aug 10 1999 - 19:22:13 NZST