export tape drive

[juno2]

We have a tape drive on remote host - host A , is it capable to export the tape drive to host B ( like export path to other hosts to mount ), so that the host B can use this drive like a drive on the local host ? thx.

[Massimo Bianchi · Accepted solution]

Hi,
you can use ftio to use a remote tape, but pay special attention to the performance, they won't be too good.


use block size of 64k or larger. The exact size depends on the performance of your network.

HTH,
Massimo

[twang]

Yes, you should create a .rhosts file on the remote host, the file contains hostname of the hostB.
You may use following command to test the connection:
hostB# remsh hostA ls /tmp
the above command should display /tmp content on hostA.
If succeeded, you may try to use the remote tape drive.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

you can't export a tape drive from machine to machine.

[Bernhard Mueller]

Hello,

as Massimo an twang told you you can use

ftio or fbackup

in a similar fashion as mount
fbackup <>

if you have setup an rhosts file for allowing the user to do remsh on remote_host

Regards,
Bernhard

[Radhakrishnan Venkatara]

hi ,
u can use tar backup also, gnu tar supports remtoe backups but the native tar doesn't

u have use it conjuction with remsh and dd.

check this links:-

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x6223eea29889d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x79c3d1e5762fd5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x9c610719e045d6118fff0090279cd0f9,00.html

[juno2]

thx all.