Remote dumps from SVR4?

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <KPT.91Feb4172646 at dirty.doc.ic.ac.uk> kpt at doc.ic.ac.uk (Kevin Twidle) writes:
| How can I backup my SVR4 system to a tape on a Sun?
| 
| There did not seem to be a dump host:dev type command.  The only thing
| that I could think of was to mount an RFS partition from another
| machine with a tape drive, but my Sun only has nfs!
| 
| Is there anyway around this? Maybe I should use gnu tar.

  If it all fits on one tape you can just (for instance):

  find / -mtime -7 -print | rsh tapemach dd ibs=200k obs=100k of=/dev/tape
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