I have Solaris 8 on two physical different machines. One machine has functional tape device. I want to access the machine having tape device and want to dump some files on Tape. How can I do this? I don’t want to use root user to do this. I just want to do this via ordinary user. Please help me out.
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Accessing Tape Device on Separate Machine
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Hi,
U can use the ufsdump command utility to backup your files from one system to another.For this make an entry of the romote user and its IP in the files /etc/hosts.equiv and /.rhosts of the server which has tape drive connected to it.
U can then give the command on local machine whose bkp is to be taken :
ufsdump 0uf <remote-server>:/dev/rmt/0 /home &
I hope this helps.....
U can use the ufsdump command utility to backup your files from one system to another.For this make an entry of the romote user and its IP in the files /etc/hosts.equiv and /.rhosts of the server which has tape drive connected to it.
U can then give the command on local machine whose bkp is to be taken :
ufsdump 0uf <remote-server>:/dev/rmt/0 /home &
I hope this helps.....
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Hi,
The ordinary user won't be able to take ufsdump backup.But if u install 'sudo' package on your system then u can grant that user this facility.U can get sudo package from
I hope this helps....
The ordinary user won't be able to take ufsdump backup.But if u install 'sudo' package on your system then u can grant that user this facility.U can get sudo package from
I hope this helps....
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Dear,
U can try using the NFS client on the server whose backup is to b taken - by connecting it to the NFS server of the destination server (2 which tape is connected)
NFS server/client is preinstalled - u jus need to share a volume (the one to which tape is mounted) on the destination server ( by using share command) and mount that volume on the server whose data is to be backed up
u may need to do the foll. at /etc/init.d
nfs.server stop
nfs.server start
nfs.client stop
nfs.client start
* U don need to hv root privelege to the user *
Regards
Vijay Best Regards,
- Vijay Guneta
U can try using the NFS client on the server whose backup is to b taken - by connecting it to the NFS server of the destination server (2 which tape is connected)
NFS server/client is preinstalled - u jus need to share a volume (the one to which tape is mounted) on the destination server ( by using share command) and mount that volume on the server whose data is to be backed up
u may need to do the foll. at /etc/init.d
nfs.server stop
nfs.server start
nfs.client stop
nfs.client start
* U don need to hv root privelege to the user *
Regards
Vijay Best Regards,
- Vijay Guneta
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