Remote dumps

Doug Hardie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have a number of servers, some of which are difficult to physically access.  I wanted to put a large drive on one and then do dumps of the other machines to it.  I don't seem to have everything setup properly, as it is not working.

The backup drive is attached to the machine named "master".  The machine I am trying to dump is "mail".  I started out by testing dumping master first.  The command:

master# nohup dump -h0 -0aLf/dumps/master.dump / &

works.  I get a dump on the drive.  In the process of trying to figure out why remote dumps were not working, I tried:

master# nohup dump -h0 -0aLf root@master:/dumps/master.dump / &
[1] 20446
master#   DUMP: master: Connection refused
  DUMP: login to master as root failed.

That doesn't seem to make any since.  Both dumps are run as root.  Somehow the login process is not functioning properly.  How do I track down that problem?  When I try to run dump on mail, I get a similar error:

mail# dump -h0 -0aLf root@master:/dumps/mail.dump /
  DUMP: master: Connection refused
  DUMP: login to master as root failed.

auth.log on both machines show no entries around that time.

-- Doug
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