topic Re: Remote tape drive in Operating System - HP-UX

Remote tape drive

Kenneth Yap — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 02:47:10 GMT

Dear Experts,
Is there any way to export out the tape devices, so it can remote use by other server ?
I'm only known in SAM the fbackup can remote backup using other server tape drives.

Re: Remote tape drive

harry d brown jr — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 02:52:33 GMT

fbackup will work to other hp's, but if they all aren't, look at gnu's tar.

live free or die
harry

Re: Remote tape drive

Printaporn_1 — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 02:53:37 GMT

use : like:
fbackup -vf hostA:/dev/rmt/0m -i /var/opt/omni/db

Re: Remote tape drive

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 02:57:53 GMT

Hi Ken,

check this thread for more info,

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=e9aa41d21348f7e248/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000036518850

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=e9aa41d21348f7e248/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055821055

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: Remote tape drive

T G Manikandan — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 03:20:53 GMT

Hello,
you can use from the local machine
#tar cvf - /opt|(remsh dd of=/dev/rmt/0m)
Even you can specify the obs(output block size)
Also you can use
fbackup remotely as mentioned above by
Mr.print..

Re: Remote tape drive

T G Manikandan — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 03:25:44 GMT

Hello,
It seems that you require more input on fbackup,
In case you would like to make a backup from a remote system to a local
DAT/DSS tape drive, you can use this comand:
remsh remote_name "/etc/fbackup -f local_name:/dev/rmt/0m -i . -0 -v"

remote_name= system that runs the backup.
local_name = system that owns the DAT/DSS drive.

If you are logged-in on the other system, then:
/etc/fbackup -f remote_name:/dev/rmt/0m -i . -0 -v

Re: Remote tape drive

Kenneth Yap — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 03:26:58 GMT

Hi All,
I need to assign the remote tape drive to my informix database for my informix backup.
It's like I NFS mount the cdrom from other server.
Any command can remote mount the tape drive ?

Re: Remote tape drive

Animesh Chakraborty — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 03:42:45 GMT

Hi,
For CDROM,it is treated as cdfs file system that is why we are able to do NFS mount.But for tape drive I don't think it is possible.

Regards
Animesh

Re: Remote tape drive

Animesh Chakraborty — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 04:02:52 GMT

Hi,
There is product called HP netstorage 6000 .

Anybody using ?

Regards
Animesh

Re: Remote tape drive

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 04:03:22 GMT

No, there is no way to NFS mount a tape drive.

It is impossible!

Re: Remote tape drive

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 04:16:35 GMT

Have a look at TKB document A1751508.