Re: Backup & Recovery

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

Hi folks,

yes as Jan writes, it seems as though the rmt program is not running
as a daemon or any other way, I'll try getting hp-ux to
start rmt after doing some reading...

thanks for the pointer in the right direction...

I'll let you know what happens...

Ahbaid.

Tom Wike wrote:
> 
> Ahbaid,
> I prefer dump myself so I would do this from the machine called linux:
> 
> /sbin/dump 0usdf 11500 141000 sugar:/dev/rmt/0m /home
> 
> Of course you will have to adjust the numbers (11500=feet, the s
> option in dump; 141000=density in BPI, the d option in dump) for
> the tape drive that is on the K220, you can get this info from the
> HP-UX FAQ. The numbers I have shown are for a 90meter 8mm tape.
> The HP-UX FAQ can be found at: http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu/
> One more thing I do believe that you will have to be able to do rsh
> (remsh) commands between the 2 boxes for this to work.
> 
> >Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 09:31:12 -0800
> >From: Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>
> >To: redhat-list redhat com
> >Subject: Re: Backup & Recovery
> >
> >Hello again,
> >
> >I've tried tar --help, but I can't figure out what exactly I need to do,
> >
> >perhaps a little more details may help,
> >
> >the K220 is named "sugar" and the linux pc "linux"
> >
> >the tape drive on the K220 is on device file /dev/rmt/0m
> >
> >how would I back up say "/home" on "linux" onto the tape drive on
> >"sugar"?
> >
> >I'm much better with examples....
> >
> >thanks for all your help....
> >
> >Ahbaid.
> >
> 
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