Ultrium 920 Autoloader Question

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 07:11:18PM -0500, jhall at socket.net wrote:

> If this is a double post, please excuse me.  I just realized I sent my 
> initial question to the wrong address. 
> 
> Today, I received my Ultrium 1/8 920 autoloader.  I just realized the tape 
> drive can be assigned an IP address so it can be backed up to over the 
> network.  And, I would like to explore this before taking the time to 
> install the SCSI card. 
> 
> Is this something I can do from the command line with FreeBSD, or am I 
> better off using software such as AMANDA or Bacula? 

Depends a little on what sort of software is on the tape drive.
But, probably you can either use dump(8)/restore(8) or tar with
no problem.   They can dump/restore to/from remote devices/files.

I have done it on some systems, though it has been a while since
the last time because my hardware has changed.

Dump/restore can be rather sensitive to version and host OS.

////jerry

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Jay
> 
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