On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> We are suffering from a tape drive and SCSI card shortage, and I'd like
> to make the most out of what we have. I have one Linux box with a very
> nice Mylex card onto which I have chained about four different kinds of
> tape drives, and I'd like to be able to use those drives to make backups
> of other machines without having to detach them and truck them around.
Are the other machines Linux machines? Then it's easy, just NFS-mount
their hard drives from your Linux box and backup away.
You can also use "rsh" (or its secure equivalents) from remote Linux
(or Unix) machines. For example:
# tar czvf - / | su -c "rsh server1 dd of=/dev/tape" tapeuser
(where tapeuser is some user with access to the tape drive who exists on
both machines).
Remote Winblows machines are a bit harder. You can SMB-mount drives but
you lose information. You may need to go to a commercial solution for that
:-(.
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