fbackup to remote tape on Solaris

[Sue Brown]

Hi,

I'm trying to use fbackup from my Solaris machine to the HP machine, and to do the backup to the tape on the Solaris machine. I issue the following command from my Solaris machine:

rsh "fbackup -0 -u -v -g graphfile -f :/dev/rmt/0"

The error I get is "writer aborting".

I have tested rsh with another command such as mkdir or date with success. My question then is, if fbackup to a remote tape supported ONLY for HP machines? If fbackup CANNOT write to a remote tape that is not on an HP, can it write instead to a FILE on the remote machine?? I have also tested the latter scenario but no luck :(.

What would be your suggestion for performing a backup of data on the HP machine to another remote machine that is not an HP (specifically, its a Solaris.)

Pls help!!!

[Philip Chan_1]

I don't think your fbackup will work even if the slave host is an HP machine as well. Because for using remote tape drive for backup, the slave host (Solaris) must have a .rhosts entry for the root user from the master host (HP).

Try adding the rhosts entry and see how it goes.

~Philip

[Printaporn_1]

Hi,

fbackup may not work , please try with tar
- setup $HOME/.rhosts

find ... | tar cvf - | remsh "dd of=/dev/rmt/... bs=

regards,

[Sue Brown]

Thanks to all who replied. I decided to use tar and dd instead.