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- Subject: Un tar-ing from a Re: How do you backup UNIX files to a VMS tape drive?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.164008.7171@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 16:40:08 EST
- References: <921203150600.574002dd@TGV.COM> <1992Dec4.170427.15817@unipalm.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Dec4.170427.15817@unipalm.co.uk>, ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps) writes:
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- > The Gnu tar program will allow you to use the "/etc/rmt" service, as
- > provided by MultiNet. You can use it out-of-the box with the /dev/rmtx
- > format tape drives. If you'd prefer to use the real device names, a
- > little (very light) hacking is needed on gnutar to persuade it that
- > names like "vaxname:msa0:/nounload" are remote names. You don't need
- > NFS to do any of this.
-
- If I understand this posting correctly I require GNUtar on, say, a DECstation
- to be able to untar a tar tape which is mounted physically on the VAX (the
- only place we have a TK50). This is suddenly quite important. We got an
- update for some software for our DECstation on a TK50, but the d/s TK50 is
- dead: we'd like to use the VAX/Multinet to get to the tape.
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