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From: crgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: New -rem option to rbak
Keywords: Remote rbak apollo
Message-ID: <529@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 89 15:02:27 GMT
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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Has anyone gotten the new -rem option to rbak to work ? The SR10.1
release notes state that it must be to a host with /etc/rmt that you
can rexec to. Since both are Suns and Convex use this mechanism via
dump to do backups I figured that would be the perfect canidates.

After mounting a wbak-written tape onto both a Sun and Convex I tried
the following:

	rbak -f 1 -rem sun:/dev/rmt8 -index -all 
	rbak -f 1 -rem convex:/dev/rmt16 -index -all
	rbak -f 1 -rem sun:rmt8 -index -all 
	rbak -f 1 -rem convex:rmt16 -index -all

After all attempts the message "Login failed." is returned along with
a message from rbak telling me it failed to connect to foreign host.
The account I was doing this from was able to rsh, rlogin, etc. without
the -l option so I know that's not the problem. I figure Apollo is using
some canned account name to connect with the rexec.

So my next step was to call 1-800-2APOLLO. And the ever so helpful response
was "You got a VAX running UNIX ? R & D says it should work so I'm submitting
an APR (i.e. so he can close the call ASAP)."


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