i guess you're only using tar for backup? do you have bru for linux? Try
setting an .rhosts on both machines to each other <don't forget to comment
out the rhosts names when you are done or remove them>. I've done remote
backups from an IRIX box to a solaris 2.5.1 box using bru, set the rhosts
up, and everything works fine.....tar shouldn't be a problem either.
wouldn't a correct tar command be something like 'tar -cvf
host:/dev/rmt/0n' rmt/0n is a sun box though....
-drew
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On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Robert G. Fisher wrote:
> I realize this is probably documented somewhere -- and if the only
> response is to let me know specifically which document(s) to read
> then I'll happily go rtfm.
>
> However, I'm having a problem with initializing remote backups on
> a machine. Using NFS is out of the question for this particular
> setup. So I need to be able to either rsh, rexec, or be able to
> tar -f host:/dev/nst0
>
> However, I keep getting failures when I try each of these mechanisms.
> I have exec and shell setup in services and in the inetd.conf to launch
> in.rexecd and in.rshd respectively on the host with the tape drive.
>
> hosts.equiv holds the hostnames of the machines in question, and
> hosts.allow also has entries for in.rshd and in.rexecd that list the
> host I wish to backup in it's entries.
>
> Unfortunately, (or perhaps fortunately if this were any other situation)
> I get an error message about permission denied or simply no response
> other than a command waiting to timeout.
>
> Help? What have I missed? I know there has already been an example of
> how to backup to a tape via tar and ssh combinations; however, I would
> prefer to do this via a straight tar host:/path-to-tape as the machine
> being backed up can easily span two tapes -- and I'm not sure if simply
> catting to the tapedrive on the remote host will let you change media.
>
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