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  From: David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : mgeddes@xavier.sa.edu.au
  Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:57:42 +1030 (CST)

Re: DAT tape

Hi,

> > Is it possible for the one without the DAT drive to access the DAT drive in
> > the other machine?
> 
> Typically no. You may find some backup software can though. You might be able
> to mount the /dev directory on the DAT tape machine via NFS and have a link in
> your /dev directory to point to the DAT driver on the first machine. I have no
> idea if this works, but it sounds good,
> 
> I'm sure somebody will correct me if I am wrong.

Certainly on other unixes, but I haven't tried under linux, you can.

Eg.. tar cf user@otherhost:/dev/tape myarchive

You'll need to read up on hosts.equiv and .rhosts file  (I assume they are
the same under linux, I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong.)

.rhosts generally is of the structure (tab delimited)

machine	authorised_user

cya

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