Larry: I believe you need to be on the machine where the actual hardware resides. From there, you can make NFS mounts of file systems on the "naked" boxes and back them up from there. I don't think you can control hardware indirectly the way you're attempting. Various commercial products utilize agent programs that talk to a server based program, using TCP/IP socket level communications. In those situations, you can back up other machines, in many cases even across operating systems, via client agents and server daemon programs that monitor communications. Scully -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of larry.sorensen@xxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:03 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Sharing SCSI tape drives I tried tar -cvf server1:/dev/st0 /directory, but it failed. Do I need to somehow share the drive on the server, like NFS or something, or should it just be able to access it? Larry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
