Rusty Carruth wrote:
> Laurent CREPET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:02:32PM +0300, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote:
>>
>>>Did anyone succeed in NFS sharing a tape and mounting that share from
>>>another machine? I'm trying to make a backup from a machine that doesnt
>>>have a tape drive to another, that does. I have the tape in EXPORTS,
>>>but I get "not a directory" blurb when I try to mount it; it seems I need
>>>to first mount that tape locally on the machine that has the tape; but it
>>>refuses to be mounted as well :) any ideas how?
>>>Thanks, -turgut
>>>
>>>
>>Tape ? You mean something like DAT ou DLT ?! You can't use such a device
>>like a hard disk or a floppy/cdrom. I've never seen someone that has
>>managed to mount a tape as a filesystem. I doesn't work like Windows
>>software like Direct-CD or equivalent one for tape...
>>
>
> Um, lets see. Somewhere I've run across a package that would do remote
> tape - not nfs, but something else. I glanced at the tar man page,
> in case it was there, but it does not appear to be there.
Tar will handle that. You will need the "r" commands enabled (rlogin,
rsh, etc), and a valid .rhosts
Then you can issue:
tar -cvf tapehost:/dev/st0 /local/directory
To tar up the contents of a local directory onto a remote tape drive.
Ric
