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- From: Jeff E Mandel <mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu>
- Subject: RMU/BACKUP over decnet?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.134841.8791@cs.tulane.edu>
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- Organization: Tulane University School of Medicine
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:48:41 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- I would like to be able to backup an Rdb database on a remote node to the 8mm
- tape drive on my node. I run both nodes, which are MV IIs, but for a number of
- reasons, I don't want to cluster them if I don't have to. I'd like to be able
- to issue a command on my node (NODEA) to backup the remote node (NODEB):
-
- $RMU/BACKUP NODEB::DB$DEV:[DB$DIR]DB MUB0:DB.RBF
-
- I try this (I have proxy access between system accounts), and I get:
-
- %RMU-F-BADDBNAME, can't find database root NODEB::DB$DEV:[DB$DIR]DB.RDB;1
- -RMU-F-NONODE, no node name is allowed in the file specification
-
- I figured maybe a concealed logical would work, but this doesn't seem to help:
-
- On NODEB:
- $define/system/translation_attributes=concealed db_nodeb db$dev:[dbs.root.]
- $rmu/verify db_nodeb:[db$dir]db
-
- Works fine, but on NODEA
-
- $define/system/translation_attributes=concealed db_nodeb
- nodeb::db$dev:[dbs.root.]
- $rmu/verify db_nodeb:[db$dir]db
- %RDB-E-BAD_DB_FORMAT, DB_NODEB:[DB$DIR]DB does not reference a database known
- to Rdb
- -RMS-F-DEV, error in device name or inappropriate device type for operation
-
- Well, OK, I don't understand everything about concealed logicals. In
- desperation, I even RTFM, but I still have no idea if what I want (as opposed
- to what I need) is doable. What I need is a way to get a fairly large database
- backup onto the 8mm tape without first having to put it on disk. I'd prefer a
- solution that doesn't require major changes to the machines (e.g. clustering,
- moving the SCSI controller from NODEA to NODEB).
-
- Thanks,
-
- Jeff E Mandel MD MS
- Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
- Tulane University School of Medicine
- New Orleans, LA
-
- mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu
-