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Backup to Remote Tape Drive?

John_44 — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:45:31 GMT

I have a system with a dead tape drive. I have another system with a tape drive that is hardly used. Is there a way to have the system with the bad drive back up to the system with the good drive? Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
John

Re: Backup to Remote Tape Drive?

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:56:32 GMT

Hi John:

The easist method is to use fbackup. It readily understands remote devices. Man fbackup and look under the -f device section.

You can also set up pipelines using remsh's and tar's but fbackup is faster and more straightforward.

Clay

Re: Backup to Remote Tape Drive?

Sachin Patel — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:02:43 GMT

Hi John
Say your system name "good" has working tape drive and you want to do backup of your /home from system "dead"
#dead:\> fbackup -0v -i /home -f good:/dev/rmt/????

(0 = level 0, v = verbose, i = include directory) you can use -i more then once.

Sachin

Re: Backup to Remote Tape Drive?

Deshpande Prashant — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:06:55 GMT

Hi
If possible, use NFS. This will affect your network, if data is huge.

What software you are using for backups?

Prashant.

Re: Backup to Remote Tape Drive?

Bill Hassell — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 19:50:36 GMT

I would not recommend NFS for backups as there are a lot of issues with reliability (poor network means unreliable data) and compatibility (file sizes, ACLs, etc). As mentioned, fbackup uses the Unix facility called rmt (see the man page), but does require that the target system with the tape drive allows the source system to remsh to the target (ie, .rhosts).