Re: Mounting tape drives between systems

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 07/29/03

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    Date:         Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:48:06 +0200
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    Yes, but what do you do with it then?

    Simon Green
    Altria ITSC Europe Ltd

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: John Jolet [mailto:john.jolet@FXFN.COM]
    > Sent: 29 July 2003 15:17
    > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > Subject: Re: Mounting tape drives between systems
    >
    >
    > 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.

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