How about this being tucked into amanda -
http://www.traakan.com/ndmjob/index.html http://www.traakan.com/ndmjob/cthon-2000.htm Maybe I misunderstand - but a standard module like this sounds right to go with the mangement amanda provides/ rcb "John R. Jackson" wrote: > >Is there any way to run an amanda server on one of the > >Linux boxes but use the tape drive(s) on the Windows > >NT server? I am not opposed to writting a days worth > >of code to accomplish this task. > > One possibility would be to use 2.4.3bX and write a new tapeio module > (hopefully not too difficult) to use the "rmt" (remote mag tape) protocol. > It has a number of problems but it might get the job done. > > Then you'd need to be able to fire up the rmt client on the NT box in > some way and get it to talk to the tape drive. > > Do you know what Cygwin is (sorry if that's too basic a question)? > Can the drive be accessed from Cygwin? > > Where I'm headed is "rmt" (the client) comes with GNU tar, so that side of > the code might already be done, or close to it. And I think there is an > inetd service that might be able to be coerced into running rmt on demand. > > John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
