virtual tape or streamer device for backup purposes possible

2003-01-21 Thread Christian Tanghe
Hello, is it possible to configure a virtual tape, just working on an other harddisk? Lokaly or on any other Server in the network Writing an reading on it should be transparent for commands like tar, cpio or any backup software. Or in other words: Can you only load a driver for an non existent

Re: virtual tape or streamer device for backup purposes possible

2003-01-21 Thread Bernd Walter
#define LANG de_DE On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Christian Tanghe wrote: Hello, is it possible to configure a virtual tape, just working on an other harddisk? Lokaly or on any other Server in the network Writing an reading on it should be transparent for commands like tar, cpio

Re: virtual tape or streamer device for backup purposes possible

2003-01-21 Thread Bernd Walter
Sorry - for the german reply, but Christian has BBC'ed his message to the german Cosmo-Project mailing list. I did noticed it to late... -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe:

Re: virtual tape or streamer device for backup purposes possible

2003-01-21 Thread Christian Tanghe
Sorry for the english/german mix... Perhaps I did not get my question to the point: How can I simulate a real streamer with tapes _transparent_ for any backup software (and any FBSD or Linux OS). It would be nice no use the implemented database of the backup software (like Yosemite/Tapeware or