[lug] Backup from Sun to Linux or SGI

[Andrew Gilmore]

I'm vaguely recalling the ability to remote mount a tape drive. "rmt" is a
command that is involved. I have no idea whether it would work across OS
differences, although I recall mounting a Sun tape drive on a Win95 machine,
and successfully backing it up.

the man page for rmt refers to using rexec or rcmd, which suggest security
issues to me.

Anyone?

Andrew
 

> From: "Scott T. Kelley" <kelleys at ucsu.colorado.edu>
> Dear BLUGers,
> 
> A couple of tough (at least to me) questions about backing up and =
> restoring for those who might be able to help:
> 
> 1) I need to make backups from my linux box to a tape drive attached to =
> a Sun machine running Solaris. Is there a simple way to dump files =
> across the network without first transferring them to the Sun? It =
> doesn't have enough hard drive space to take much at all. I also would =
> like to do this with an SGI to that same tape drive (once I get it =
> running again). I tried mounting the linux file system onto the Sun but =
> I had problems the /etc/vfstab and probably didn't configure it =
> correctly. Is that even the way to go with this?
> 
> 2) Our SGI recently got wiped (and I mean *wiped*) kernal and all by a =
> network intruder. However, there was a (hopefully) complete backup made =
> some time ago by a former lab mates on the same tape drive mentioned =
> above. In this case I would like to restore the whole thing again across =
> the network if possible but I am not sure where to begin with this task.
> 
> Thanks for any and all help you might be able to give me. -Scott