remote dumps started via cron

[Shawn Mamros]

In article <692 at mpirbn.UUCP>, p539wob at mpirbn.UUCP (Wolfgang Barth) writes:
> We've a VAXStation3100 and some DECStations3100 (running under Ultrix V3.1/
> UWS2.1) and want to hold a copy of some drive partitions of the VAX on
> a DECStation drive. [...]
> 
> We tried to do this with:
> dump 0uf - filesystem | rsh dec "(cd /backup ; restore xf - )"

Try running it from the DECstation instead and using rsh on the dump command:
rsh vax dump 0uf - filesystem | (cd /backup ; restore xf - )

I've run dump via rsh before - it works very well.

-Shawn Mamros
mamros at aiag.enet.dec.com or mamros at cavdog.enet.dec.com