From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 13:20:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA07093 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:20:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07041 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:19:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from virginia.edu (mars.itc.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id NAA23635 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:19:45 -0800 Received: from archive.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id ab27842; 28 Mar 96 16:13 EST Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA02895; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:13:25 -0500 (EST) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA02790; Thu, 28 Mar 96 16:13:23 EST Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:13:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Lars Jonas Olsson Cc: questions@freebsd.org, jonas@mcs.net Subject: Re: remote tape control In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 System Administrator for the NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine labs adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| For an application and information Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/