Hi, We can take backup in tape drives using tar & amanda.
And the easiest way to take backup in tape drive is done by tar command, follow the below links. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tape-backup-with-mt-and-tar-command-howto/ (check this first) http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/solaris-tar-command-to-backup-data-on-tape-device.html http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-7228/6j6q7uf25?a=view And for amanda check the below links. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/AmandaBackups#head-451e355fb2d2458888b873ac0108143fb05f861c http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_chapter http://www.amanda.org/docs/amanda.conf.5.html http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/18050.html http://www.zmanda.com/quick-backup-setup.html Regards Andrew --- On Fri, 30/4/10, jotiba rokade <rokade_jotiba...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: From: jotiba rokade <rokade_jotiba...@yahoo.co.in> Subject: [Linux_Mantra] backup from linux to tape drive on remote system To: Linux_Mantra@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, 30 April, 2010, 6:38 PM hi all, can any one suggest me, how to take backup from linux system ot tape drive on another linux machine Regards jotiba [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]