My apologies for my dumb statement. Yes we run (well actually used to, we've since purchased an NDMP license to support Filer attached tape drives) NFS backups on our Solaris 2.7 Admin Host but via Legato Networker.
Legato is running a proprietary client to send a stream of data to the Storage Host containing the tape drive. It simply takes a "pathname" as criteria to the path to backup and does not care if its an NFS mount.
It is most certainly not ufsdump.
My apologies for my mistatement.
-Bob
Chris Thompson cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk wrote:
I would like to backup an NFS system (from a Network Appliances filer) to a local tape drive (with multi-volume), via Solaris 8 system, which command is better ?
I have try to make this backup with ufsdump, but I have error : root@server:/tmp# ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0cn /mnt/filer/ DUMP: `/mnt/filer' is not on a locally mounted filesystem DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. root@server:/tmp#
I think the reason that Sun changed the name from "dump" (in SunOS 4.x) to "ufsdump" (in Solaris 2 and later) was to emphasize that it only dumps (local) UFS filing systems!