[plug] dump: master/slave protocol botched ?

[John Summerfield]

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Bevan Broun wrote:

> I checked dejanews but could only see one or two people with the same
> problem and no solutions.
> 
> When dumping from one file system to another:
> dump 0f - / | restore xf -
> I got
> DUMP: master/slave protocol botched ....
> 
> This is on RedHat 5.0 with dump-0.3-11. I did the /usr and /var
> partitions no problem. I was also able to do individual directories
> under / ok.

If only one machine's involved, does dump/restore have any advantage over 
cp -a
?

For copying from one machine to another I've seen something like this
suggested (but I've not tried it, and my memory isn't perfect)
rsh remote.site tar -zcf- | tar -xzf-


Cheers
John Summerfield
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