I have two solaris servers running Oracle Applications. One is SPARC 5.9 and other one is SPARC 5.10
I want to share the tape drive attached to 5.10 with other machine so that i can enhance my backup strategy for backing up Oracle DB.
I tried to share my tape drive by performing the below which I got it from one forum
1. On the server with the tape drive, you must share this drive to the other servers. Go to the /etc/dfs/dfstab file and enter the following line:
share -F nfs -o rw /path/nameoftapedrive
2. To share it out you must type the command: shareall
note: you must be root to do all this.
3. From the server you want to back up mount the tape drive to a local directory something like this:
mount server1:/path/drivename /mnt
4. back up the server info to that mount point which is your tape drive.
5. unmount the drive
But i got the below error when sharing
root@KSEBSDB # shareall
share_nfs: /devices/pci@2,600000/LSI,sas@0/iport@80/tape@w500110a001392e28,0:n: Operation not applicable
Here is a workaround - use tar and rsh (or ssh)
nfs is for filesystems, I have never seen it documented for use on tape drives. Tape drives do not have filesystems like disks do. Which is why you can use dd to write directly to a tape device. But not a disk device.
here is how to use tar to get files from a tape on the remote system back to the local system:
restore from remote
files to remote archive
20 is the tape block size: 20 bytes
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