On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 22:50 +0400, amar_padhi wrote: > requirement is simple. Two servers exist on RHEL 3.0. The tape drive > is connected to server B. The databases are on server A. We want a > direct access to the tape drive on server B from server A. This way we > will be able to do online backups direct to the server B tape drive > from server A databases. Redhat support informed that this is not > possible, i.e., tape drives cannot be shared across the network. What about doing it the opposite way? Share the systems to be backed up to the server, and have the server do a backup of their shared resources. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
