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by **Red Hat Linux Us** » Tue, 02 Jun 1998 04:00:00

Would it be possible to do
a remote backup of a RH 4.2
system to a SGI IRIX 4.0.5F
sytem (that has a 4 mm tape)?

thanks in advance
john slimick

by **Stefan Monnie** » Tue, 02 Jun 1998 04:00:00

Quote:> Would it be possible to do a remote backup of a RH 4.2 system to a SGI IRIX
> 4.0.5F sytem (that has a 4 mm tape)?

Yes.

Stefan

by **Pat Thoyt** » Wed, 03 Jun 1998 04:00:00

> > Would it be possible to do a remote backup of a RH 4.2 system to a SGI IRIX
> > 4.0.5F sytem (that has a 4 mm tape)?

> Yes.

> Stefan

If you are going to be so helpful, why do you bother wasting the
bandwidth of our networks with your useless postings. I assume that
you don't actually know how to answer his question but want to seem
like a smartarse.

*er.

To the original post:

You can do that. You should lookup GNU tar(1) and rmt. Basically
tar will use rsh to controll the remote tar drive and pipe the data
to it. You will need to be able to use rsh as a user with write
access to the tape device (eg: root)

Then it's something like:

but check the man page for the syntax first.

Note that GNU tar uses /etc/rmt to actually control the drive. So
your IRIX will need to have this. Also I heard some Linux systems have
a problem finding rmt because it got installed in /sbin. If this is the
case a link from /etc/rmt to the executable shoudl fix it.

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