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- From: pa@curly.appmag.com (Pierre Asselin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Backup to DAT over net
- Message-ID: <1250@curly.appmag.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 21:17:37 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.170942.11576@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Organization: Applied Magnetics, Goleta, CA
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- In <1992Jul23.170942.11576@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- pczip@mips.Berkeley.EDU (Ivan Powis) writes:
-
- >How do you go about this? At the moment we're having to physically carry
- >the DAT drive around from machine to machine. This surely isn't the way
- >it has to be done is it?
-
- (Mail to pczip@mips.berkeley.edu bounces.)
-
- I'm on AIX, not HP-UX, but it shouldn't matter. From the host with the
- tape drive, I run
-
- # rsh <dumpee> /etc/rdump -f <dumper>:/dev/rmt0.1 ...
-
- This requires an /.rhosts on the dumpees, to let root on the dumper run
- remote shell commands without a password. (The "rmt0.1" is IBM's name
- for the no-rewind tape drive.)
-
- Another solution is to pipe dump (on the dumpee) to a remote shell on
- the tape host, running dd to the tape. Never tried it, though.
-
- Also, check the name of the remote shell. On HP-UX, I believe it is
- called "remsh" to comply with the SVID.
- --
-
- --Pierre Asselin, Magnetoresistive Head Engineering, Applied Magnetics.
- pa@appmag.com the usual disclaimers apply.
-