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Re: backup trouble

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Apr 9 19:53:16 1997

From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Apr 1997 13:30:40 EDT."
             <199704091730.NAA23321@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 19:52:52 EDT

> 
> So, according to sam, the problem with the backup may be that the
> machine you were doing the backups on is not in the backup database.
> So what you probably want to do is delhost btc and addhost the machine
> you're doing the backup on.  The reason for the delhost is that you
> seem to need unique tape coordinator port numbers within a cell. (my
> reason for believe this is that dump take a port arg.  and not a host
> arg.)

This and re-labeling the tape (the system thought is was unexpired,
due to the partial dump) seemed to solve the problem and the dump is
now in progress.

	Jonathon


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