Mounting remote tape drive

dnicky · November 14, 2006, 7:36am

Hi,

Would appreciate if anyone could tell me if it is possible to mount (and use) a remote tape drive on a AIX server, and if so, what are the precise configuration steps needed?

The tape drive to be mounted as a remote tape drive is present on another AIX server in the same network.

Thanks.

johnf · November 14, 2006, 8:34am

Is this an LPAR running AIX5.3 or some other RS6000? An lpar running 5.3 using virtualisation it is possible to do this. On two seperate RS6000s I am afraid the answer is no!

dnicky · November 14, 2006, 8:55am

Thanks for the reply.

No it's not LPAR.

johnf · November 14, 2006, 9:01am

Then I refer you to the second part of my reply.

dnicky · November 14, 2006, 9:49am

Thanks for your reply.

cpmurray · December 5, 2006, 6:45pm

Dnicky,
What are you trying to do? I have done cpio to tape drives on other machines with the following
find . | cpio -icvBdum | rsh host "dd of=/dev/rmt0"

Regards
Craig Murray