Thanks all for feedback. Will explore pipe option (thanks Markus !!)
I was looking (wishing actually) at this command: dbmcli -d HOTELDB -u DBM,DBM medium_put completeT [EMAIL PROTECTED]/dev/rft0 TAPE DATA 64000 8 NO Will keep all posted...hardware arriving soon. Cheers, aidroos -----Original Message----- From: "Döhr, Markus ICC-H" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:58 PM To: Al-Aidroos, Habib Abdul Majeed; maxdb@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: SAP/MaxDB database backup to remote tape drive - Linux > My query is, how does one perform MaxDB backup on a remote tape drive? What you can also do is to backup to a pipe and take the content of that pipe from the remote system and back it up. This can also be used to create system copies. Source system: - create a pipe device - start backup Tape system: - # rsh <source-system> "dd if=<pipe>" of=/dev/nst0 Greetz, SIEGENIA-AUBI KG Informationswesen i.A. Markus Döhr SAP-CC/BC, SAPDB-DBA Tel.: +49 6503 917-152 Fax: +49 6503 917-7152 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.siegenia-aubi.com -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
