Remote fbackup

[Steve Hall_2]

I have a failing tape drive, I have another drive in a remote machine.

Using fbackup -f machine:/dev/rmt/0m

I get the following error message
fbackup(3301): could not open output file machine:/dev/rmt/0m

What have I to do on the remote machine to allow the operation, or whatelse am I doing wrong ?

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Steve,

This thread will help you out, also you can check in sam to see if your remote tape define is defined for use,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1028520

Regards,

Jaime.

[melvyn burnard]

first, does the fbackup work locally on that server?
Second, have you set up the security to allow this?

[Steve Hall_2]

Fbackup does work on the local server.

How do I check the security ?

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

If I recall correctly you need .rhosts set up.

[Steve Hall_2]

.rhost on the 2 machines was the problem

many thanks