>>>>> "kt" == KThorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
kt> I'm sure I've seen references to this, but grepping averywhere
kt> hasn't helped.
kt> We have two Linux boxen but a single DAT Drive. Where do I start
kt> looking to make this tape drive available to the other box?
1) Make sure that rsh connections can be made from the tapeless
machine to the other:-
# rsh otherbox pwd
/root
#
2) You can now use the remote-tape facilities of tar and dump:-
# tar cfv otherbox:/dev/st0 /etc
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
[...]
3) Be aware that this soesn't work with mt, and you would have to do
# rsh otherbox mt -f $TAPE fsf
(Note that here $TAPE is expanded by the local machine)
If you want to avoid allowing root to rsh from one machine to the
other, you can use a pipe and either something like
"su specialuser -c 'rsh womble /sbin/rmt /dev/st0"
or use SSH (see ftp.replay.com) to do this.
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