Very Computer

Sincerely,

Brian Rankin

Konstantin
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 How about using rdump? its free and comes with most OS'ses...

-chris

: >I have an SCO Unix (Openserver5.0) that I want to backup across the
: >network, onto an Exabyte drive attached to a Sun Sparc Solaris2.4 system.
: >I'd prefer not to NFS-mount the SCO box onto the Solaris box.
: >Anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this?  I'd like to backup
: >with ufsdump, if possible.
: Either use amanda, which is PD or use Solstice Backup which costs money but
: has a nice and nifty Graphical User Interface.

: Konstantin
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: Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
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: "Treason, like beauty, lies in the eye of the beholder." Garak

I always found that

ufsdump -f - partition |rsh solarisbox dd of=/dev/rmt/whatever

worked for me...  Of course, it will suck up bandwidth, but you can reduce
that somewhat if you put a gzip or compress between ufsdump and rsh,
assuming gzip or compress don't load the SCO box too much...

"It's like integrating Honda with Porsche" - George Zachary of Mohr Davidow
       Ventures, on the purchase of Apple Computer by Sun Microsystems.
      "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy" - Max Weinreich

find . -depth -print | cpio -ocv | compress | rcmd <<remote>> "dd of=/dev/rct0"

or similar.

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: >I have an SCO Unix (Openserver5.0) that I want to backup across the
: >network, onto an Exabyte drive attached to a Sun Sparc Solaris2.4 system.
: >I'd prefer not to NFS-mount the SCO box onto the Solaris box.
: >Anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this?  I'd like to backup
: >with ufsdump, if possible.
: Either use amanda, which is PD or use Solstice Backup which costs money but
: has a nice and nifty Graphical User Interface.
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YUP!  For $199 bucks you get PerfectBACKUP & Restore (See SCO WORLD MAGAZINE
February 1996 issue).  It will backup across the net and locally.

   Be aware, when compressing the output of a backup program, that
one bad byte on the tape effectively marks the end of your usable
backup.

   If you use a program which compresses the individual files,
one bad byte marks the end of that particular file ... but if
the hardware and tape drivers can continue reading past the
error, the backup software can scan for the next file header
and continue.

   If, on the other hand, you compress the output of the backup
program, you're history.  You can't seek into the middle of a
piece of compressed data and start reading it; the decompressor's
state is dependent on every token that came before, and if some
of that information is missing, it will be difficult if not
downright impossible to continue.
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