Hi, Is it possible to dump a remotely mounted NFS filesystem to a local tape drive. I export a filesystem from machine1 to machine2 /users/rsch2 youngmunster(rw,no_root_squash,sync) I mount this filesystem on machine 2 mount oc:/users/rsch2 /users/rsch2 Then when I try to dump it I get the following and an empty dump tape. [root@youngmunster bin]# /sbin/dump 0 -a -f /dev/st0 /users/rsch2 DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Dec 28 15:33:47 2004 DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda1 (/ (dir users/rsch2)) to /dev/st0 DUMP: Excluding inode 8 (journal inode) from dump DUMP: Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump DUMP: Label: / DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 62 blocks. DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Tue Dec 28 15:33:47 2004 DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: Closing /dev/st0 DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Tue Dec 28 15:33:54 2004 DUMP: Volume 1 50 blocks (0.05MB) DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:07 DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 7 kB/s DUMP: 50 blocks (0.05MB) on 1 volume(s) DUMP: finished in less than a second DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Dec 28 15:33:47 2004 DUMP: Date this dump completed: Tue Dec 28 15:33:54 2004 DUMP: Average transfer rate: 7 kB/s DUMP: DUMP IS DONE Regards, Tony -- Tony Molloy. Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick