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Remote BACKUP via TCP/IP?

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The Question is:

 
There is an old trick to run backup through
DECNET to another nodes tape drive.  Is there
one like it for TCP/IP?
 
 

The Answer is :

 
  DECnet provides capabilities not available via TCP/IP, particularly
  around the record-level capabilities and integration of the File Access
  Listener (FAL) into OpenVMS.
 
  There is presently no way to redirect BACKUP activity to a specified
  routine via the API.
 
  The most obvious approach would be a pseudo-device connection to a remote
  node, or a client-server BACKUP package, or the use of an OpenVMS Cluster
  and remote tape (or remote disk) services.
 

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 21-JUN-1999 )
     
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