From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 01:07:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA24054 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 01:07:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA24048 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 01:07:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA10491; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:09:37 +0100 (MET) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.3/8.6.9) id KAA05371; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:08:56 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199701220908.KAA05371@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: remote tape backup In-Reply-To: <199701212300.JAA00420@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> from Robert Chalmers at "Jan 22, 97 09:00:19 am" To: robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:08:56 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Does anyone know the correct invocation for doing a tape backup to > another machine on the network? > > I tried using the "/sbin/dump 0uf hostname:/dev/rst0 /usr" > but it simply returns a socket permission denied socket error. What exactly is the error message (output of the dump command?) Is the remote machine a FreeBSD machine? It works for me here with the following setup between two FreeBSD machines: o the user on the remote machine is in group 'operator' o chmod 660 /dev/rst0 o entry in .rhosts > > any help much appreciatd, > thanks > Bob > -- > Triple-W: P.O. Box 2003. Mackay. 4740 +61-0412-079025 > robert@chalmers.com.au for Whirled Peas http://www.chalmers.com.au > Location: Whitsunday Web Works. 21'7" S, 149'14" E. > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de