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- From: DAHMS@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Heribert Dahms)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: How to do save backup/restore using DECnet to/from a VAX/VMS ?
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 16:03:22 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)
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- I have a script which does a level 0 dump of each disk piped into "dcp -i ..."
- so it can be written on a DAT connected to a VMS system. The DAT is mounted on
- VMS as normal Files-11 form a DECterm to allow remote access. I've tested the
- reverse of reading back over DECnet with restore tf - and it seems to work.
- To be sure the DAT was temporarily plugged direct to the DECstation 5000/125
- (under Ultrix 4.2) and I used ltf and tapex to verify whats really on tape.
- According to tapex each "save-set" consists of a lot of 10Kbyte records with
- the last beeing some shorter multiple of 512 bytes.
-
- Can someone tell that it is 100% save to do
- dcp -i <remote> - | dd bs=10240 | restore xf - /dev/<devnam>
- when I want to restore the complete filesystem(s) without disturbing other
- partitions on the same destination disk? Or what shall I use?
-
- On VMS, BACKUP/LIST produces messages if something is wrong with a save-set.
- On Ultrix, I couldn't verify without risk of overwriting some data because I
- don't know how to send a restore xf into /dev/null and restore tf seems to
- read only the headers (broken pipe very early so it's impossibly all was read).
-
- And what's the stuff about "a level 0 dump must be done after a full restore"?
- Isn't a dump read-only from disk, so how can it influence some i-nodes?
-
- All questions are because I know VMS well and till now we have only one Ultrix-
- machine with a CDROM but no tape (and no money...) so I must remotely backup.
- In the rare case of the system disk crashing, I would do minimal installation
- from CDROM and then restore either from net or temporarily connect the tape
- locally, but only then and not for *writing* backups at some intervall.
- So you can guess that I want to know wether I can rely upon that or not!
-
- In a few days, I must exchange disk drives between VAXen and the DECstation
- because the filesystem overflows, so on the bigger one I've to restore somehow.
-
- Any comments and suggestions welcome.
- If you e-mail me directly, I'll summarize to the newsgroup.
-
-
- Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
-