Original question was:
Is it possible for machine A to access a tape drive on machine B for the
purpose of backups (vdump) and restores (vrestore)? If so, how is this
achieved?
Many answers (none tested by me yet), but the basic options were:
1. rsh <machineA> "/sbin/vdump -0 -b <blocksize eg. 8192> -f -
<filesystem>" | dd of=<tape drive> bs=<blocksize as used in vdump
command>k
NOTE: It is important to match the vdump blocksize with the dd blocksize
so that vrestore will work directly.
NOTE: The rsh can be either on the vdump command or the dd command
depending on whether you want to push or pull the data from machine A to
machine B.
2. NFS mount machine A file systems on machine B and the access the
tape drive directly.
3. For regular network backups try Amanda (
http://www.amanda.org)
Thanks to those that helped.
Mark.Schubert_at_faulding.com.au
Received on Fri Dec 19 1997 - 05:21:28 NZDT