Are the other systems also running linux? You
might be able to use "rdump" to dump from the
remote device from the machine that has the
tape drives. Something like
rdump 0usf 100000 tape_server_hostname:/dev/nst0 /
(see "man dump")
We used to do this on our Sequents, but I haven't
verified it on Linux yet.
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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.
>
> 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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