From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You can do this, at least with floppy tapes. The trick is to have a
> .rhosts file on the machine with the tape drives specifying the name(s) of
> the machines you want to back up. Then you just access the tape drive
> with:
> tar cvlf machine_with_tape_drive:/dev/rft0
> Deke
From: Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Well, on my system there's no dump _or_ rdump. Any idea which package...
/sbin/dump
dump-0.3-5 (or a later version)
> the method of creating a .rhosts file in /root on the tape-bearing machine
> and then on the remote machine:
>
> # tar -cvf tape_server:/dev/st0 [or whatever]
>
> . . . also doesn't work on my machine.
>
> I get the following error:
>
> bash: /etc/rmt: No such file or directory
> tar: Cannot open ethel:/dev/st0: Input/output error
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> So, here again I think there must be some component that I'm missing.
/etc/rmt is in tar-1.11.8-9
I advise _not_ using root as the receiving account as that requires a
/root/.rhosts file. With a new account called 'bu':
tar -cvf bu@tape_server:/dev/st0
And you can fake this with a pipeline like {dump,tar}|dd|rsh on
other systems such as SunOS 4.1 if it isn't provided. Once you've
shifted to a separate account you can put a custom shell on it if
you wish, ensuring that an intruder has very little power.
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