network backup in a heterogeneous environment

[Scott Bennett]

In article <1991Apr24.140354.25607 at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> kjh at visual1.jhuapl.edu (Kenneth J. Heeres) writes:
>I have a DECstation 5000 running Ultrix 4.1 and I do not have
>a decent way of backing up the system.  I do not currently have
>any tape device attached to the system and I do not have control
>of another UNIX system that has a large capacity tape drive.
>
>I do have:
>  A large MVS system running IBM's TCP/IP with tape drives up
>  the yazzoo.  This system does not support rdump.
>
>  A VMS system running VMS Ultrix Connection with Exabyte drives.
>  This system does not support rdump.
>
>I have looked at ftp's the dump up to these systems but it looks
>as though all alternatives require that I have room on the work-
>station for the dump.  Is this true????

     dump(8) can do a dump to a specified file, which is also how
you dump to a tape device other than the default tape.  Does your
MVS system have the NFS server support running?  If so, how about
dumping to a file on that server via NFS?  That way you wouldn't
need rdump(8).  If your MVS system doesn't have enough disk space
to hold a complete backup cycle, you could then offload each dump
file to tape from MVS once it had been created via NFS from your
DECstation.
>
>Does anybody have any cost-effective alternatives or suggestions.
>
>ken
>
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>Kenneth J. Heeres                             The Johns Hopkins University
>INTERNET: kjh at visual1.jhuapl.edu              Applied Physics Laboratory
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                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
                                  Systems Programming
                                  Northern Illinois University
                                  DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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