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- From: adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: Un tar-ing from a Re: How do you backup UNIX files to a VMS tape drive?
- Message-ID: <921215171550.24000542@TGV.COM>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 17:15:50 PST
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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.
-
- Correct.
-
- The other way of doing it is to copy the contents of the file to
- VMS disk and then either FTP it to the DECstation or access it over
- NFS. If you:
-
- $ mount/for/block=10240/rec=10240 mua0:
- $ copy mua0: somefilename
-
- the file you get should have fixed length records 10240 bytes long and
- should be readable by standard UNIX tar via NFS or after FTPing it
- in binary mode.
-
- Ken
-