Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:13:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@stretch.cs.virginia.edu> To: Lars Jonas Olsson <jonas@mcs.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, jonas@mcs.net Subject: Re: remote tape control Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960328160853.26090C-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0u2J0G-0005xyC@mars.mcs.com>
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On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Lars Jonas Olsson wrote:
> Our tar and dump have support for using device on other host, but mt
> is lacking this support. Is there any mt with support for controlling
> remote tape drives? (supports mt -f user@host:device rewind)
Well, if you put the horse on the other side of the cart, you get
"rsh host -l user mt -f device rewind". I don't think there is a better
way of doing this, because it's pretty simple. Remote access to a tape
,as with tar, is a special case. It's more efficient than tar'ing to
stdout and pipig it into a remote dd to the device.
cheers,
Adrian
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