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- From: ubjta56@ucl.ac.uk (Dr P Day)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: How do I use a remote backup unit?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.113459.30301@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 11:34:59 GMT
- Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System)
- Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium, London
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- We have just bought a HP DAT backup unit and connected it to one of
- out Indigos. All is well when backing up the Indigo that the DAT is
- attached to, but when I try to backup the Indigo on my desk using
- the remote Tape Drive (i.e. bring up the System Manager, login as
- root, click on Backup & Restore, type in the name of the host.
- Get the 'insert tape in drive and click accept' dialogue box,
- I then get a dialogue boc saying checking the network connection,
- followed by another saying 'system is unable to open the remote tape
- drive'.
-
- Questions:
-
- (i) why does the remote Indigo insist that it cannot
- open the tape drive, which a few minutes earlier was
- accessed by the host Indigo?
-
- (ii) What do I have to do to remotely backup Indigo A on a tape
- drive that is attached to Indigo B? (i.e. do I have to mount stuff
- and do it all by hand (manually) using backup?)
-
- (iii) Can anyone help please !!!???!!!
-
- Thanks, in advance, Paul
-