Hi all, I wish to set up a client to backup to a standard tape drive (/dev/st0) on the server. Using tar. I really don't want to have to resort to using a commercial product or something like amanda for simplicity reasons.
Now, as I understand it, tar when used in this situation writes directly to the tape device - the tape is not 'mounted' as such as it has no filesystem. So does that mean I need to export the entire server /dev/ via NFS to allow the tar process on the client to write to the device? I would rather not as that would seem a little in secure. Can I copy the device node from dev to another directory and simply export that? Will the node still function? I notice that from the tar man page the -f option will write to a device on a remote system: -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F use archive file or device F (default "-", meaning stdin/stdout) but how do you set the remote system up (in this case the server) to allow the tar process access to the device? Many thanks for your help, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.
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