[SunHELP] remote ufsdump

[Will Mc Donald]

From: Chanaka Mendis <chanakam at millenniumit.com>

> "Vivas Inga, Yovana Mery" wrote:
>
> > Hi, I want to make backups using ufsdump on a station that doesn't have
its
> > own tape driver?, this station is client of a server that has its own
tape.
> > Regards
> > _______________________________________________
>
> ufsdump 0uf <server>:/dev/rmt/?  <partition>
>
> _______________________________________________

Further to this, I think the machine with the tape drive must allow the
other machine to rsh/rlogin to it either through a .rhosts file for a user
with access to the device (this is most users by default I think) or through
hosts.equiv. From the man page...


     f dump_file
       Dump file.  Use dump_file as the file to dump  to,
       instead of  /dev/rmt/0. If dump_file is specified
       as -, dump to standard output.

       If  the name  of  the  file  is   of   the   form
       machine:device, the  dump is done from the speci-
       fied machine over the network using rmt(1M). Since
       ufsdump is normally run by root, the name of the
       local machine must appear in the /.rhosts file  of
       the  remote  machine.  If the file is specified as
       user at machine:device,ufsdump  will attempt to  exe-
       cute  as the specified user on the remote machine.
       The specified user must have a .rhosts file on the
       remote  machine that allows the user invoking the
       command from  the  local machine  to  access  the
       remote machine.


Will.