And lo on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:53:58 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> I'm confused - can't the big disk machine access the tape drive  
>> directly over the network?
>
> No. How would you do that?

As part of a SAN

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:04:29 +0000, Phil Cook wrote:

> And lo on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:53:58 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
> did spake, saying:
> 
>> Phil Cook wrote:
>>> I'm confused - can't the big disk machine access the tape drive
>>> directly over the network?
>>
>> No. How would you do that?
> 
> As part of a SAN

Well, if the tape device was, that would be one way.  I didn't assume 
that when I thought of my answer, which would be just to export the big 
disk machine's filesystem to the small disk machine using NFS.

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> that when I thought of my answer, which would be just to export the big 
> disk machine's filesystem to the small disk machine using NFS.

I guess that would work. For years I'd been using

cat /dev/tape | rsh overthere tar xf -



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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:18:17 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> that when I thought of my answer, which would be just to export the big
>> disk machine's filesystem to the small disk machine using NFS.
> 
> I guess that would work. For years I'd been using
> 
> cat /dev/tape | rsh overthere tar xf -

That'd work, too - obviously. ;-)

Jim

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