Acessing the tape drive from another server

[Phuti]

Hi

I have an ultrium tape drive attached to a Tru64 server. I want to access this tape drive from another server directly.

How can I handle this challenge?

Thanks in advance.

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

It depends of your operating system version and backup command used.

You can for example use rvdump if you have the command, or you can use a tar command like this:

localsystem> tar cvf - /usr/users | rsh remotesistem.domain dd of=/dev/ntape/tape0c

This will backup the contents of the /usr/users directory using tar in a remote system.

To list the backup

localsystem> rsh remotesistem.domain dd if=/dev/tape/tape0c | tar tvf -