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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!paul
  3. From: paul@actrix.gen.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
  4. Subject: Re: Backup to DAT over net
  5. Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
  6. Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 02:34:59 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Jul26.023459.6238@actrix.gen.nz>
  8. References: <1992Jul23.170942.11576@cs.nott.ac.uk> <TT.92Jul25102129@tarzan.jyu.fi>
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  11. In article <TT.92Jul25102129@tarzan.jyu.fi> tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes:
  12. > In article <1992Jul23.170942.11576@cs.nott.ac.uk> pczip@mips.Berkeley.EDU (Ivan Powis) writes:
  13. > rdump/rrestore should also work, with tar &c you can use a pipe
  14. > through remsh (tar cf - /disk | remsh machineB dd of=/dev/rmt/0m ...
  15. > etc).
  16.  
  17. I would beware of using dd with remsh and either tar or cpio.  There
  18. are some alleged synchronization problems which can silently lose
  19. data.  There is a program around called rsend which allegedly gets
  20. around this problem.
  21. -- 
  22. Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.gen.nz
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