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 17:37:07 +0200
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    I think what you need is something like:

    rsh wherever dd if=/dev/rmt0 | restore -x -f -

    Take a look at it; have a play. I've not actually done this myself.

    Simon Green
    Altria ITSC Europe Ltd

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Tim Muller [mailto:aix_sa_706@YAHOO.COM]
    > Sent: 29 July 2003 16:25
    > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > Subject: Re: Mounting tape drives between systems
    >
    >
    > Actually, I want to do a restore from a remote tape
    > drive. From what you've written, I think that I need
    > to execute a remote shell from the target system, then
    > I can execute the restore command to restore from the
    > remote tape to the current directory. Correct? TIA.
    >
    >
    > --- "Green, Simon" <Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM> wrote:
    > > 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.

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