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From: abair@turbinia.oakhill.uucp (Alan Bair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: backups
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Date: 30 Sep 89 02:56:13 GMT
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In-reply-to: steven@batserver.cs.uq.oz's message of 28 Sep 89 01:21:43 GMT

I know you said you did not want to use wbak, but take a look at
the -remote(?) option.  With SR10.1, you can run wbak and send
the output to the tape on the Sun.  I have used it and it works,
but I really want it for our DN10000, but its not there yet.

Actually before this option was in place, I grabbed a PD verison
of a set of rmt routines, the code that does remote tape ops,
and made my own little cat to run 'wbak -stdout | rcat ...'.
This worked fine to 1/2" tape.  I need to get it setup to  use
our 8mm, then no more tape swapping, even for full backups.

Hope you can use this.  Actually I would rather use the Unix
dump and restore programs, but Apollo does not support them.

Alan Bair
SPS CAD
Motorola, Inc.
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