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Re: [cobalt-users] Is is possible to "mirror" RAQ2s?

> > Umm...tar's still free.  Granted you can't do a remote tar to an x86
> > box w/o a coredump, but if you have another machine w/ a tape drive
> > you can always mount the RaQ2 via NFS and do a backup that way, not
> 
> in my opinion, nfs should be avoided if possible. security relevant.

If you are doing remote backup to an x86 machine via tar, NFS is
only avoidable if you pipe to rsh or ssh and use dd of=/dev/st0
on the remote server or tar to files and ftp it down.

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