tar

[Nobody's Hero]

Can you tar to a remote DDS drive the same way you can with fbackup?

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

No.

Pete

[Pete Randall]

I should probably say "not directly"

see this post:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x4489402f24d5d61190050090279cd0f9,00.html


Pete

[Martin Johnson]

No. Not using tar. Veritas Netbackup will allow you to use a remote tape drive.

HTH
Marty

[Rodney Hills]

You could to a look at gnu tar. It has additional features to work with remote tape drives by using "rmt".

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Stanimir]

Hi!
Try something like:

/usr/bin/tar cvbf - ./backup_dir | remsh dd of=/dev/rmt/0m obs=32k

Or use NFS to mount backup_dir to the host
with DDS, then use tar conventionally.
Regards,Stan

[Paul Sperry]

/usr/bin/tar cvbf - ./ | remsh dd of=/dev/rmt/0m obs=32k"

Assumes /dev/rmt/0m is the correct tape device on the remote server. You will need to be able remsh to the other host. Add the source hostname to the appropriate user .rhosts file on the remote host to allow it.

[harry d brown jr]

With GNU tar you can:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.25/

live free or die
harry