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.
What's the best way to do this? I'd rather not bog up the "tape
server's" hard drives with data that's just passing through on its way
to the tape drive, and I also don't want to export the drives I'll be
backing up, so one thought that occurred to me was to find some way of
exporting the tape drives as if they were resources like disks. I know
that Linux won't mount a SCSI tape like a disk drive (right?), but it
seems as if a tape device could be set up to take incoming files off of
a network. Is this done? Where should I start?
TIA,
m
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