I don't know how well this applies to your situation, but for what
it's worth you could set up a staging process that uses scp to copy
files to a directory on a local disk and then write from the local
disk to an attached tape drive. This is the general method of some
backup systems like Amanda. It has an advantage in that the tapes
are written faster when the tape buffer is kept full.
Some newer tape technologies don't have problems with slower data
feeds, and this doesn't deal at all with SANs, but the general method
of a secure copy over the net to a staging area followed by a write to
tape should be a relatively straightforward thing to try.
--Tom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Our Oracle DBAs have a script that will allow them to use scp
> to copy a database to a remote host. They'd like to convert it
> to copy to tape on a remote host (on our site), and then ship
> the tapes (rather than try to scp across the WAN). Straight scp
> complains that I am not writing to a directory when I try it:
>
> scp -vC compress_scpdb_jr.sh operator@tapeserver:/dev/nrmt0h/
>
> Sending file modes: C0755 31391 compress_scpdb_jr.sh
> scp: /dev/nrmt0h/: Not a directory
>
> and I can find nothing in the FAQ indicating that this will work.
> Can anyone suggest any good alternatives that will still use scp,
> around which the script is built, to write to tape somehow?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Judith Reed
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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Tom Cavin
WCCF Computer Operations Manager Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
