Cool! Everyone Thanks for the input. amar On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 12:56 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 12:50, 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. > > > > I am very sure this is possible. This is a requirement which every > > multi-server organization will have and linux is more than capable of > > doing this! > > > > Do provide your inputs. Bottom line, how do I share my tape drive on the > > network (for linux servers only). > > The straightforward way is to execute the jobs that need tape > via ssh from the machine with the tape drive, redirecting > the output appropriately. For example, for a tar backup: > ssh othermachine 'cd /dir_to_copy && tar -cf - .' >/dev/nst0 > If your tape drive requires fixed block sizes you can > pipe through dd with -obs specified to adjust as needed. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx >
