Re: Mounting tape drives between systems

From: John Jolet (john.jolet_at_FXFN.COM)
Date: 07/29/03

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    Date:         Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:17:19 -0500
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    tar will allow you to output to stdout.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Green, Simon [mailto:Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM]
    Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:20 AM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: Re: Mounting tape drives between systems

    One way is to use dd on one system to write the data to stdout, pipe it via
    rsh to dd on the remote system and thence to the tape.

    I don't think it would be easy to do this with most of the backup commands,
    (backup; tar; pax). The simplest method is to back up to a disk file, then
    copy that file to tape.

    You can't create a bootable backup this way, but it _is_ possible to build
    your own bootable tape by writing the necessary boot files explicitly.
    There's been some discussion of this in the past. There's no way of booting
    from it over the network, though.

    Simon Green
    Altria ITSC Europe Ltd

    AIX-L Archive at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=aix-l&r=1&w=2
    AIX FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Tim Muller [mailto:aix_sa_706@YAHOO.COM]
    > Sent: 28 July 2003 14:59
    > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > Subject: Mounting tape drives between systems
    >
    >
    > Please indulge another rookie question.
    >
    > I'm told that I can mount a tape drive from one RS6K
    > (AIX v4.3.2) onto another (v4.3.3) across the network.
    > Is this correct? If so, where is the procedure
    > documented?

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