>We are suffering from a tape drive and SCSI card shortage, and I'd >like
>to make the most out of what we have. I have one Linux box with a >very
>nice Mylex card onto which I have chained about four different kinds >of
>tape drives, and I'd like to be able to use those drives to make >backups
>of other machines without having to detach them and truck them >around.
>What's the best way to do this? I'd rather not bog up the "tape
>server's" hard drives with data that's just passing through on its way
>to the tape drive, and I also don't want to export the drives I'll be
>backing up, so one thought that occurred to me was to find some >way of
>exporting the tape drives as if they were resources like disks. I >know
>that Linux won't mount a SCSI tape like a disk drive (right?), but it
>seems as if a tape device could be set up to take incoming files off >of
>a network. Is this done? Where should I start?
>TIA,
>m
Simple : Use the BRU backup-package. I believe it supports remote
tape-drives.
Igmar
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