Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!IUVAX.CS.INDIANA.EDU!jec From: jec@IUVAX.CS.INDIANA.EDU (James E. Conley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: more SR10 questions Message-ID: <8812041914.AA20493@umix.cc.umich.edu> Date: 4 Dec 88 19:15:09 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 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.