SUMMARY:Re: Tape Drive problem

From: Venu M Middela (vmiddela@cs.gmu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 11 1998 - 01:42:13 CDT


hello Sun Managers.
        Thanks to all for the quick replies. In deed it was the .rhosts
problem. I was using an alias for the local machine on YYY. The .rhosts
would not work correctly with aliases for the
hostnames. I replaced the entry with the complete name of XXX listed
in the /etc/hosts table of YYY.

Thanks to the following people.
        
        Derek Terveer <derek.terveer@ci.stpaul.mn.us>
        Bismark Espinoza <bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov>
         Daniel T Pigg <piggd@colltech.com>
         Brion Leary <brion@dia.state.ma.us>
         VRAJAN@CORPORATE.LACELLULAR.com
        Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>
        foster@bial1.ucsd.edu
        Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>
                                                         

Thanks again,
Venu.

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Venu M Middela wrote:

> Hello Sun Managers,
> I'm trying to backup files of a local disk onto a
> remote tape drive connected to a machine within the same
> subnet as the local machine. I used to do the backups before
> but now i'm unable to write to the tape drive connected remotely.
> When I start the backup script, the message is
>
> backup /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 at Thu Sep 10 18:30:04 EDT 1998
> DUMP: Permission denied.
> DUMP: Cannot connect to tape host `YYY'
> DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
>
> I have checked on the remote machine's .rhosts file for an
> entry for the local machine. It seems to be ok.
>
>
>
> The backup script is
>
> echo "ufsdump for XXX server (Sparc20)"
> df
> set tapelist0=(/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s3 /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0)
> echo `date`
> echo "Backups for `/usr/ucb/hostname`"
> echo ""
> foreach filesys ($tapelist0)
> echo "backup $filesys at `date`"
> /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0budfs 126 54000 YYY:/dev/nrst8 13000 $filesys
> sleep 30
> echo "$filesys done"
> echo ""
> end
> echo "BACKUP ALL DONE ! at `date` for `/usr/ucb/hostname` "
>
> The script used to work before, but I cant understand what's causing the
> permission denied message to write to the tape drive.
> Any ideas??
>
> Thanks and will summarise.
> Venu.
>
>



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