From: Rod Jenkins (RodJ@IOWATELECOM.COM)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 15:34:41 EDT
rsh works, but netcat I think is easier and performs better.
read the readme file for instructions. it is very felxible.
rod.
-----Original Message-----
From: Green, Simon [mailto:Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:37 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Mounting tape drives between systems
I think what you need is something like:
rsh wherever dd if=/dev/rmt0 | restore -x -f -
Take a look at it; have a play. I've not actually done this myself.
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Muller [mailto:aix_sa_706@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: 29 July 2003 16:25
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Mounting tape drives between systems
>
>
> Actually, I want to do a restore from a remote tape
> drive. From what you've written, I think that I need
> to execute a remote shell from the target system, then
> I can execute the restore command to restore from the
> remote tape to the current directory. Correct? TIA.
>
>
> --- "Green, Simon" <Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM> wrote:
> > One way is to use dd on one system to write the data
> > to stdout, pipe it via
> > rsh to dd on the remote system and thence to the
> > tape...
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