Once more this list responded amazingly 6 responses in less than 12 hours !!
The general consensus is that I can do this - hooray !!
The only area of conflict was around the block size to make dd use, the
majority opted for 60K blocks as this is the block size that vdump uses,
some seemed to state that 64K was the block size.
Thanks again.
Kevin Jones
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If I perform a vdump to a file, " saved-usr.dmp "
and then I dd this file to a tape drive (DAT).
I assume I could vrestore directly from this tape.
Could I just do : dd if=saved-usr.dmp of=/dev/tape/tape0
or would dd need any additional switches.
The reason for this question. The system to be backed up has a local DAT
drive, unfortunately it is in a locked datacentre. We intend to vdump to an
NFS
mounted area served from a server in a non-locked datacentre, which also has
a
local DAT drive. We can then produce backup tapes for emergency recovery -
hopefully.
Regards
Kevin Jones
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