Very Computer

Hello

I am new to Linux and I am trying to test my backup procedures.  

Every night I backup to tape using cpio to /dev/st0 (local tape
drive).

I have found a machine on the network that I want to restore the
backup to and the first problem I have is to access the tape drive
across the network.

I shared the /dev directory using NFS (rw,no_root_squash) to my remote
machine which mounts it as /share/dev/ and I am able to see the
contents from the remote machine.

However when I do a

cpio -itv < /share/dev/st0

I get...

bash: /share/dev/st0: No such device.

What am I doing wrong?

Or perhaps the question should be "What (if anything) am I doing
right?"

|Every night I backup to tape using cpio to /dev/st0 (local tape
|drive).
|
|I have found a machine on the network that I want to restore the
|backup to and the first problem I have is to access the tape drive
|across the network.
|
|I shared the /dev directory using NFS (rw,no_root_squash) to my remote
|machine which mounts it as /share/dev/ and I am able to see the
|contents from the remote machine.
|
|However when I do a
|
|cpio -itv < /share/dev/st0
|
|I get...
|
|bash: /share/dev/st0: No such device.
|
|What am I doing wrong?

It just doesn't work that way. NFS does not share tape devices like
that. But you can use the remote tape drive option explained in the man
page with cpio (assuming this is GNU cpio). I would recommend using ssh
to make the connection instead of rsh.