network backup in a heterogeneous environment

[Duncan McEwan]

In article <1991Apr24.140354.25607 at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> kjh at visual1.jhuapl.edu (Kenneth J. Heeres) writes:
>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.

All that is needed to support rdump is a way of running "/etc/rmt" via
the rcmd(3) library call (ie via rsh(1).  /etc/rmt should be relatively
easy to port to a non-unix environment.  If your VMS or IBM machines
don't support rsh(1) then it gets a little harder...

Duncan