Re: [expert] mounting a tape!
Tapes are not random-access devices. Unless there's something new and exciting, you can't NFS mount them (only block devices, not character). You might want to check out rmt (section 8 in your manual). -Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://hebb.mit.edu/~ben Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mounting a tape!
Rusty Carruth wrote: Laurent CREPET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:02:32PM +0300, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Did anyone succeed in NFS sharing a tape and mounting that share from another machine? I'm trying to make a backup from a machine that doesnt have a tape drive to another, that does. I have the tape in EXPORTS, but I get not a directory blurb when I try to mount it; it seems I need to first mount that tape locally on the machine that has the tape; but it refuses to be mounted as well :) any ideas how? Thanks, -turgut Tape ? You mean something like DAT ou DLT ?! You can't use such a device like a hard disk or a floppy/cdrom. I've never seen someone that has managed to mount a tape as a filesystem. I doesn't work like Windows software like Direct-CD or equivalent one for tape... Um, lets see. Somewhere I've run across a package that would do remote tape - not nfs, but something else. I glanced at the tar man page, in case it was there, but it does not appear to be there. Tar will handle that. You will need the r commands enabled (rlogin, rsh, etc), and a valid .rhosts Then you can issue: tar -cvf tapehost:/dev/st0 /local/directory To tar up the contents of a local directory onto a remote tape drive. Ric
Re: [expert] mounting a tape!
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:02:32PM +0300, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Did anyone succeed in NFS sharing a tape and mounting that share from another machine? I'm trying to make a backup from a machine that doesnt have a tape drive to another, that does. I have the tape in EXPORTS, but I get not a directory blurb when I try to mount it; it seems I need to first mount that tape locally on the machine that has the tape; but it refuses to be mounted as well :) any ideas how? Thanks, -turgut Tape ? You mean something like DAT ou DLT ?! You can't use such a device like a hard disk or a floppy/cdrom. I've never seen someone that has managed to mount a tape as a filesystem. I doesn't work like Windows software like Direct-CD or equivalent one for tape... You use tar/cpio/dump to backup/ restore you filesytem to/from the tape. If you want to backup different machines with only one tape, export what you need to backup on each machine, and mount every exported filesystems/directories on the server... Or use the machine with the tape as a backup server: it will export some directories. On each machine, mount one from the backup server, copy the data you need to backup to the backup server exported filesystem. Finally, run a backup on the backup server. Laurent. -- Laurent CREPET -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://megrapet.free.fr/
[expert] mounting a tape!
Did anyone succeed in NFS sharing a tape and mounting that share from another machine? I'm trying to make a backup from a machine that doesnt have a tape drive to another, that does. I have the tape in EXPORTS, but I get not a directory blurb when I try to mount it; it seems I need to first mount that tape locally on the machine that has the tape; but it refuses to be mounted as well :) any ideas how? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr
Re: [expert] mounting a tape!
REgret to inform you: You cannot export, and mount, a tape device like that. It's a block device, not a character device. There are however utilities out there that will allow you to acces the drive on a remote server. Most any of the better distributed back-up agents will alow this (Amanda comes to mind). If you're desperate, try accessing it via tar: tar -cvf tape_host:/dev/sd0 /home (assuming /dev/sd0 to be the tape device, and /home being the directory to be backed up. If you want to do regular backups, look into the backup agents. You set them up on all the workstations, set up the server, and then just remember to change the tapes on a regular basis. Ric Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Did anyone succeed in NFS sharing a tape and mounting that share from another machine? I'm trying to make a backup from a machine that doesnt have a tape drive to another, that does. I have the tape in EXPORTS, but I get not a directory blurb when I try to mount it; it seems I need to first mount that tape locally on the machine that has the tape; but it refuses to be mounted as well :) any ideas how? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr
