remote tape device

[Kenn Kantola]

I would like to remotely mount a tape drive that is on another UNIX system from my HPUX system. Does anyone know how to do this?

[Thierry Poels_1]

hi,

which tool : omniback, fbackup , tar, cpio, ... ?

regards,
Thierry.

[Marcin Wicinski]

Hi,

There is no need to mount remote tape drive. It is a case of atool you want to use. For an example fbackup. You can fbackup through the net with -n option, but on local and remote host .rhosts must allow another host logging.

Later,

[Tim D Fulford]

You can't "mount" a tape device, however if the equivalences are ok you can use:
:/dev/rmt/1m
in place of the tape device.

To get the equivalences use /etc/hosts.eqiv or roots .rhosts or the user's .rhosts

[Kenn Kantola]

I have to access the drive from UniVerse, a db package, now part of Informix. So I think I will try the equivalancies. That seems logically to be the one that would work. Thanks.