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- From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
- Subject: Re: Life with mksysb(1)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.160346.23703@cdsac.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:03:46 GMT
- References: <syscrc.712016658@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
- Organization: Cable Data (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA
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- In article <syscrc.712016658@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> syscrc@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter) writes:
- >Is it still true that you can't do a mksysb(1) using a remote tape drive?
-
- As shipped, "mksysb" will not let you back up across the network. However,
- "/usr/bin/mksysb" is just a shell script and it would be very trivial to
- tweak it so that it redirects each segment of the backup to another machine
- (via something like " ... | rsh <remote_mach> dd of=/dev/rmt0.1"). Make sure
- you use the non-rewinding device for all but the last segment.
-
- You will still NOT be able to boot from this tape from over the network;
- though if you just want to restore individual files you can...
-
- Hope this helps!
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- L. Scott Emmons
- csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
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