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- From: trial@magma.geol.ucsb.edu (Alain Trial)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Backups for RS/6000
- Message-ID: <trial.728103058@magma.geol.ucsb.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 02:50:58 GMT
- References: <11283@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <19930122.082438.527@almaden.ibm.com>
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- In <19930122.082438.527@almaden.ibm.com> Mickey_Coggins@vnet.ibm.com writes:
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- >In <11283@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Steve Greenfield writes:
- >>I have no tape drive attached to my machine. I can rdump to a RS/6000 in
- >>the machine room that has an 8mm tape drive /dev/rmt0. But when you rdump
- >>you can only dump one filesystem at a time. I would assume that you can
- Stuff deleted
- >>
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- >Here's a trick. Create a named pipe on your system called /tmp/.fs.size
- >with the following command: mknod p /tmp/.fs.size
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- >Do the mksysb to this named pipe: mksysb /tmp/.fs.size
-
- >Now, just use rsh to copy the data from the named pipe to your remote
- >machine with a command like this, all on one line:
-
- >dd if=/tmp/.fs.size ibs=10k obs=512 | rsh RemoteMachine "dd ibs=512 obs=10k
- >of=/dev/rmt0" #this must be all on one line, obviously
-
- >--
- >Mickey Coggins Mickey_Coggins@vnet.ibm.com
- > +41-1-436-7274 / +41-1-436-8525 (fax)
- > Hohlstrasse 560, CH-8048 Zurich, Switzerland
- >_______________
-
- How do you use this mksysb tape to reinstall the operating system after
- disaster strikes? I assume that one starts by booting from floppies. Then
- how do you get the install programs to read from the remote tape drive?
-
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- Alain Trial
- trial@magma.geol.ucsb.edu
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