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From: jec@IUVAX.CS.INDIANA.EDU (James E. Conley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: more SR10 questions
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Date: 4 Dec 88 19:15:09 GMT
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	Well, by primative I meant that they lacked some very useful features
of dump and restore, namely multiple levels of backup and tape retries if you
put a bad tape on.  It is better than nothing, but I'd prefer dump and restore
any day.  Not to mention the ability to do dumps on other machines (A VAX to
an Alliant, not just from Apollo to Apollo) using rdump and rrestore.  Also,
dump dates aren't updated until the backup finishes.

	And of course, wbak/rbak are slow.

	I am curious though, what method you use to backup all that data.  We
have only about 4GB here and it takes several hours to do an incremental of
that much data even when it only really writes about 1/5 of a tape.  I'll admit
that I'm not fluent in AEGIS, but since they are supposed to run UNIX I would
hope that I wouldn't need to.