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From: david@terra.igcom.net (David B. Bauman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Backup over a network
Date: 22 Mar 1996 22:04:11 GMT
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Patrick (ptiquet@cdepot.net) wrote:
: I have three machines running BSDI 2.0.1., only one of which has 
: a tape back-up drive. The command I use to to backup on the system with 
: the local tape drive is:

: dump 0ufB /dev/nrst0 4000000 /

: and 

: dump 0ufB /dev/nrst0 4000000 /usr

: - which works just fine.

: When I goto another machine (the one minus the tape drive) I try:

: rdump 0ufB sinbad:/dev/nrst0 4000000 /

: and I get:

: Permission denied.
: TCP_MAXSEG setsockopt: Bad file descriptor    

: AND I've tried:

: dump 0ufB /dev/nrst0 4000000 henry:/ 

: And I get:

:   DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Mar 22 13:16:18 1996
:   DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
:   DUMP: Dumping henry:/ to /dev/nrst0
:   DUMP: Cannot open henry:/                 

: and it doesn't work. The machines are set up properly (*I think*) within 
: root's .rhosts file. And I can rcp and rsh between machines no problem. 

: Any help would be greatly appreciated.


I believe using rsh would work.


David Bauman