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In article <96Jul12.224206pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>,
Bill Fenner  <fenner@parc.xerox.com> wrote:
: How about
:
: admin# rsh ux1 dump 0f - / | dd of=/dev/tape

Silly me forgot about that one. And it has the advantage of
centralizing the dump commands on admin, which is a Good Thing
(TM).

I recall that we tried something like that on a network of Suns
and it routinely croaked. Oh well, I'll give it a try....