[comp.sys.next] Backup to Floptical

jkwood@pegasus.com (Keith Wood) (03/27/90)

I have a 330 HD on my stand-alone cube (which is named 'manana') and want to use the Floptical as a backup device.  I've read on the net that the 'rdist' command can be used to copy all changed files within a given set of directories to the Floptical, but I have not yet had any success getting the command to work.


Several weeks ago, someone had posted an article on this subject and they stated that the '/etc/hosts' file needed to have the local cube's name added to the list of known hosts.  Although I run my cube stand-alone, I do run NetInfo (and therefore the /etc/hosts and /etc/hosts.equiv are not consulted).  Notwithstanding, I did alter the following lines in my '/etc/hosts' file:


	192.42.172.1	myhost
	192.42.172.2	client1
	192.42.172.3	client2
		...
	192.42.172.10	  manana

(I also added that last line to my /etc/hosts.equiv file...)


I used the following distfile script:

	#
	# distfile
	#

	MAINHOST = ( manana )

	MYFILES =  ( * )

	MISCFILES = ( .places */.places */*.places */*/*.places )

	${MYFILES} -> ${MAINHOST}
		install -w -y -h -i /OpticalDisk ;

Trying both as 'me' and as 'root', from '/me' I typed the command

	rdist

and recieved the following error:

	updating host manana
	Permission denied.


Any help that anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated.  Please respond via e-mail - if there are any others interested in these results, let me know and I'll post the solution...


Keith

uucp address:		pegasus!manana!jkwood@nosc.mil