What version of unix is the backup client? I can tell you that Solaris 2.7 (my admin host) *will* "ufsdump" an nfs mounted FS.

It used to be back in the SunOS days that "dump" would not. I remember trying.

Can you use a Solaris 2.7+ client to try it on?

-Bob B.

masterlolo <masterlolo@noos.fr> wrote:

Hi all,

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#

Thanks,

Laurent