Hi all,
Thanks to the following people for their response!!
"Alan Angulo" <alan_at_esu.edu>
"Piotr Bienias" <bienias_at_ae.katowice.pl>
"Wolf Dieter Brandt" <wolf_at_chaos.gwdg.de>
"Harald Baumgartner" <hmb_at_xray.mpe.mpg.de>
"jean.schuller" <Jean.Schuller_at_IReS.in2p3.fr>
"S. Khemmanivanh" <somckit_at_u.washington.edu>
"Thomas Leitner" <tom_at_radar.tu-graz.ac.at>
My Question was:
Is it possible to access a tape drive on another host (hostA) from
my host, without NFS, using DecUnix 3.2. ??
The answer is YES: Here are some of the commands to be used:
tar cvf - * | rsh hostA '/usr/bin/dd of=/dev/nrmt0h bs=60k'
To view contents of tape:
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rsh hostA '/usr/bin/dd if=/dev/nrmt0h bs=60k'|tar tvf -
Use GNU tar at You can get gnutar at
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/.
--file=HOSTNAME:/DEV/FILE NAME
rsh hostA tar cvf /dev/nrmt0h /mount_point/mounted_fs
tar -cvf - . | rsh remothost dd of=/dev/nrmt0h
tar cvbf 64 - | rsh hostA "dd of=/dev/nrmt0h ibs=32k obs=32k"
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Received on Fri Jul 09 1999 - 13:31:51 NZST