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Good day all!

I need to recover FS from backup, but the thing is that tape drive cable is not compatible with the server's input (tape drive's cable is wide, but at the server input (V240) is tight one). So, I want to connect this tape drive to another Solaris based server and mount tape drive remotely to be able recover dump from tape.
Can anyone suggest me how I can do it?

Thanks in advance,
Roman

---------- Post updated at 07:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:42 PM ----------

Guys, I found cable which I can connect to V240.
So, it seems that problem is solved... ))))

Or you can Share Tape Drive over NFS without the need to move the drive between machines

Ho, could you please let me know how I can do that?

You need to configure NFS Server / client
Otherwise you can tar over rsh and vice versa
First, here is how to archive files from the local machine (example) to a tape on a remote system (host):

Code:

 example% tar cvfb  -  20 filenames | rsh host dd of=/dev/rmt/0  obs=20b

here is how to use tar to get files from a tape on the remote system back to the local system:

Code:

example% rsh -n host dd if=/dev/rmt/0 bs=20b | tar xvBfb - 20 filenames