Apologies for the terminology, but this is at about the limits of my knowledge. We have 2 Solaris 9 machines maintained by an applications provider which we can admin remotely. The machines (call them m1 and m2) are on different subnets, and are each completely locked down with their respective firewalls. We need to backup both m1 and m2. m1 has a tape drive attached so backup (using ufsdump) is simple enough. Backup of m2 *should* be straightforward enough also (using ufsdump 0uf m1:/dev/rmt/0 ....) but that doesn't work - I'm getting a "connection refused" error.
Fair enough. Security is tight. I've created /.rhosts on both machines which hasn't helped. Then created /etc/hosts.equiv on both machines - no luck there either.
I'm now guessing that the requried ports are closed via the firewall. Both telnet (23) and ftp (21) report "connection refused" also.
Now to my question. Given the scenario above, any ideas on what I need to do to get a remote ufsdump to work? What are the security implications?
(I'm aware of the Veritas remote backup tool - not an option at the moment)
Any ideas much appreciated.
Greg.
Fair enough. Security is tight. I've created /.rhosts on both machines which hasn't helped. Then created /etc/hosts.equiv on both machines - no luck there either.
I'm now guessing that the requried ports are closed via the firewall. Both telnet (23) and ftp (21) report "connection refused" also.
Now to my question. Given the scenario above, any ideas on what I need to do to get a remote ufsdump to work? What are the security implications?
(I'm aware of the Veritas remote backup tool - not an option at the moment)
Any ideas much appreciated.
Greg.