How to use tape from other system

[Carles Viaplana]

Hello,

Could I use a tape configured in system1 from system2?
Should I share anything?

Note that system1 OS is 11.11 and system2 is 10.20.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,

Carles

[Chan 007]

Hi,

One way NFS the file system to the server that has tape.

Chan

[Peter Godron]

Carles,
first two answers in
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=767959

[MarkSyder]

You can share a tape drive if you are using Omniback, but should note that Omniback is no longer supported by HP. The more modern version is Data Protector, but this will not work on HP-UX 10.20.

This covers you for application software and user data, but for operating system you need ignite. Ignite will not work on a remote tape drive.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

How you want to use it?

Write a `tar' tape on a remote computer that owns a DAT/DDS drive.

cd /relative_path

tar cvf - . | remsh name -l user "cat - | dd of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=10k"

Restore a `tar' tape from a remote computer that owns a DAT/DDS drive.

cd /relative_path

remsh name -l user dd if=/dev/rmt/0m bs=10k | tar xvf -

[Sivakumar TS]

Hi Carles,

Pls check this doc,

Configuring a Remote Tape Drive on HP-UX 10.2

at

http://www.pimpworks.org/hp/remotetape.html

aslo see this,

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/usail/backups/backup/

Hope this helps,

Siva.

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

you can start 'fbackup' also in 'SAM'.
So you can test in 'Backup and Recovery' under 'Actions' if the remote tape is available (Use Remote Backup Device').

HTH
Volkmar

[Carles Viaplana]

Hi all,

finally I used following command:

tar cvf - . | remsh system2 "cd /tmp/ ; tar xvf - . | dd of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=10k"

On this way I backup all system files frm system1 to system2 separatelly instead an unique TAR file.

Thanks to all for your help!
Regards,

Carles