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  From: Mark Brown <mark@complex.psych.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:58:20 +1030 (CST)

Re: DAT tape

> Darryl Merritt wrote:
> 
> > I have two RedHat V6 sitting side by side connected by 100Mhz network.
> >
> > Is it possible for the one without the DAT drive to access the DAT drive in
> > the other machine?
> >
> > Darryl
> >
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> 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.
> 
> Matt

Even more typically - Yes.
Standard utils such as mt and dump/restore work fine given an appropriate rhosts entry.
See the man pages for mt or dump
eg restore tf mark@machine:/dev/st0

Mark