From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 06:58:33 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA05602 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 06:58:33 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA05596 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 06:58:15 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id JAA00660; Tue, 2 May 1995 09:50:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 09:50:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: rdump man pages??? To: Jason Boerner cc: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2 May 1995, Jason Boerner wrote: > While attempting to figure out how to perform a remote dump to a tape > drive on another machine; I ran accross the fact that the man pages for > rdump point to the man pages for dump. > > The dump pages tell nothing about rdump. I.E. which files need to be > setup to configure things correctly on the remote machine etc. the arguments that rdump needs depend upon the machine that has the tape drive attached to it. you need to read the DUMP man page on that machine. an example: i rdump from kryten, a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 machine, to windsurf, a SunOS 4.1.3 machine. the rdump arguments are sunos specific: /sbin/rdump 0dsbfu 54000 13000 126 windsurf:/dev/nrst8 /dev/rsd0a d density 54000 bpi s size, length of tape 13000 feet b blocking factor 126 blocks of 512 bytes f which file|device windsurf:/dev/nrst8 u update the /etc/dumpdates file in order for the above command to work, the /etc/host.equiv file and|or the .rhosts file must be setup correctly. (see the man pages on the machine with the tape drive.) Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346