From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 3 13:26:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03834 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 13:26:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03825 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 13:26:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA11032; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 13:26:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 13:26:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gary Schrock cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rdump (was Re: Backups?) In-Reply-To: <199804031822.NAA12208@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Gary Schrock wrote: > >We use rdump, which is the same sort of idea, except using dump instead of > >tar. > > So what's the trick to getting rdump to work properly? I've looked into > this a few times, but I've never been able to get it to work properly. I > figure it's something stupid I'm doing, but I just can't figure it out from > the man page. You need to allow the machine to be backed up rsh access to the tape server in /etc/hosts.equiv. I hate this way myself since it's a blatant security hole. We actually hacked a way to pipe this through ssh but I don't have that script in front of me. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message