Backing up AIX to a Sun tape drive -- can it be done?

[jsalter at slo.UUCP]

In article <2185 at megadon.UUCP> giguere at csg.UWaterloo.CA (Eric Giguere) writes:
>But when >I try a backup using a sequence:

>	 rdump 0unf csg:/dev/rst9 /dev/hd2

>where "csg" is the Sun's name and "/dev/rst9" is the tape drive off the Sun,

According to the BSD System Admin document (/usr/lpp/bos/bsdadm), the proper
invocation from the AIXv3 system is:

	rdump -0 -unf csg:/dev/rst9 /dev/hd2

>The rewind concerns me because I don't see why it's happening.  What's more,
>typing

>
>This is very annoying, obviously!  Then I got to wondering -- "rdump" is
>just a version of "dumpbsd"... however the Sun is most definitely not a
>BSD machine.  Could this be my problem?

Sun's are more mature than AIXv3, though, so I'd suspect that their bugs
have been found and fixed by now.

>Eric Giguere                                       giguere at csg.UWaterloo.CA


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