Hi,
You can do this, at least with floppy tapes. The trick is to have a
.rhosts file on the machine with the tape drives specifying the name(s) of
the machines you want to back up. Then you just access the tape drive
with:
tar cvlf machine_with_tape_drive:/dev/rft0
(or whatever).
Good Luck!
Deke
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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