Re: remote dump error messages
Joonwoo Nam (nam@angie.ecs.umass.edu)
Sun, 16 Feb 1997 16:50:11 -0500 (EST)
> I can't seem to get dump to work properly on remote systems. Below
> are the errors. Any ideas about this are welcome.
>
> [root@pokie /root]# dump f elsie:/tmp/dump.file /home4/sen1/fprogs
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Feb 17 15:26:38 1997
> DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> DUMP: Dumping /dev/sdb1 (/home4) to /tmp/dump.file on host elsie
> DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
> DUMP: estimated 101 tape blocks on 0.00 tape(s).
> DUMP: Protocol to remote tape server botched (code "bash: rmt: command
> not found").
> rdump: Lost connection to remote host.
> DUMP: Bad return code from dump: 1
>
> Does anyone on this list use dump for remote backups to Linux boxes? If
> so, what version of Linux, dump, etc. are you using?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> -sen
1. dump expects root shell of remote tape server(elsie) as /bin/csh.
2. Check out elsie's '/root/.rhosts' contains pokie.
3. Also check out /etc/rmt is softlinked to /sbin/rmt at elsie.
Joonwoo
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Joonwoo Nam
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Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMASS at Amherst
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