Charles_E_Zlamal at consecofinance.com wrote: > > Does anyone know if it is possible to redirect output from a tar command > to a tape device file on another system via an NFS mount? My > understanding is that there are some issues with the redirection of > sequential write devices. No, I believe the system would interpret any devices as being local. Otherwise, how would diskless clients be able to talk to their own devices? You can run it over ssh, though: tar --rsh-command=/usr/bin/ssh -zcvf user at host:/dev/tape [files...] > I am trying to centralize a backup device that will serve several NT > based virtual servers on Linux hosts. (for purposes of continuity, my > company insists on the NT backup format for these machines) At this point, you'd probably need to find a commercial solution for that. I'm halfway wondering if Amanda is/can be ported properly to Cygwin. Anyway, I just have to mention Veritas's NetBackup. I don't know yet how good it is (or how expensive), but where I work, we're eventually going to be getting server binaries for Linux/Sparc (either that, or someone's been lying to me), and have it back up all sorts of systems (I think NT, Novell, Solaris, and Linux). -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Energizer Bunny Arrested! / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Charged with battery. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010918/34881b71/attachment.pgp