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- From: mike@news.mr.med.ge.com (Michael Dyer)
- Subject: Re: Question about fbackup and remote backups
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- Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
- References: <Jul28.231759.26477@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 15:04:05 GMT
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- From article <Jul28.231759.26477@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, by dandy@stokes.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (David S. Dandy):
- > I'm trying to use fbackup to do a full backup of one 9000/730 (8.05)
- > onto a DDS connected to a second 9000/730 (also 8.05). I'm having
- > no success with the following:
- >
- > fbackup -0 -g /tmp/backuplist -f able.baker:/dev/rmt/0m
- >
- > After starting up, fbackup terminates with a message to the effect
- > that there is no such machine as 'able.bake' known to it. When I
- > try the IP number instead of the name, I get a similar termination
- > message; machine '123.45.67' is not responding. (Specifying just
- > 'able' is not sufficient for the nameserver.)
- >
- > The bottom line is that no matter what I specify as the remote machine
- > name, fbackup seems to only pay attention to the first 9 characters of
- > that name (or IP number).
-
- That is exactly the problem I'm told. The code allows 10 bytes
- for machine name and the NULL terminator. Anything over 9 bytes
- for machine identifier and it will be truncated. This is a known
- problem, no word on when it will be fixed.
-
- > Is there some way to accomplish my goal of doing this remote backup?
-
- I would expect, but haven't tested, that aliasing your target
- machine name to something shorter than 10 bytes should work.
- This would be in /etc/hosts or the Domain Name Server data
- base, if you are running DNS.
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