Re: Symbolics backup to UNIX host

[Chris Lindblad <cjl%life.ai.mit.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>]

    Date: Sat, 27 May 89 15:41:22 N
    From: unido!fb10vax.sbsvax!unido!sbsvax!ks@uunet.uu.net


    Another backup related question (or a possible solution for your
    problem?):
    What about mounting the LMFSs via NFS on the SUN and then "dump" them?
    You must have NFS for your Symbolicses to do this but if you have I
    think it should be a easy way to get a backup on the exabyte.

    But I don't know for shure because we have no NFS on our Symbolicses
    so I can't try. Can someone comment who knows, please?

dump only works on the local file system.  It doesn't work through NFS, even
if the NFS server is a sun.  This is because dump looks at the raw device for
the filesystem to be speedy.

tar, on the other hand, works fine through NFS.