Backups - Sun and Ultrix Systems

[Operator]

Hello All,

We use a system of scripts and Exabyte-8200 tape drives to back
up our 50+ Megs of disks here.  The scripts basically do a "rsh
system /etc/dump 0f system:/dev/nrst0 /filesystem" to pick up
file systems from remote machines.  This works very well with our
Sun systems, however when it comes to our DEC/Ultrix systems, we
always get errors something like this:

The Ultrix system bundles the dump up like a huge file, and when
it gets to the Sun host that issued the dump request, an fopen error
occurs.  This is a part of the dump log:

DUMP: Date of this level 9 dump: Mon Nov 12 23:35:21 1990
  DUMP: Date of last level 8 dump: Thu Sep 27 08:34:42 1990
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/rra1h (/mnt1) to sugar:/dev/nrst0
  DUMP: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: Mapping (Pass II) [directories]
 
  DUMP: Estimated 298770432 bytes output to file named sugar:/dev/nrst0
 
  DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails
  DUMP: Child 10565 returns LOB status 4
  DUMP: Bad return code from dump: 0


Has anyone out there seen this, and found a resolution ??

Thanks in advance,

Dan Wiesenstien
Mentor Graphics
danw at emperor.scs.com
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