Re: Sharing tape drive -possible?

From: Bill Verzal (BVerzal@KOMATSUNA.COM)
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 08:49:06 EST


Server <--------> Tape Drive <-----------> Server

I do it all the time. On several servers.

Just be sure to change the SCSI ID of one of the SCSI adapters, otherwise
you'll have a conflict on the bus.

BV
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Hi Guys,

Is it possible to share tape drive in AIX platform? Can anybody help me? I
have 2 AIX 4.3, one has tape drive (4mm) and the other one don't have. I
need to have a system boot backup (using mksysb), a bootable tape to the
one server that don't have tape drive. I am thinking if it is possible to
share tape drive to other machine.

If so, can you show me how?

Thanks in advance,
Ruby Ann Domalanta



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