Accessing Tape Drive on another linux system

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, December 23, 2005 10:50 PM +0400 amar_padhi 
<amar_padhi at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> requirement is simple. Two servers exist on RHEL 3.0. The tape drive is
> connected to server B. The databases are on server A. We want a direct
> access to the tape drive on server B from server A.

Name        : rmt
Version     : 0.4b39
URL         : http://dump.sourceforge.net
Summary     : Provides certain programs with access to remote tape devices.
Description :
The rmt utility provides remote access to tape devices for programs
like dump (a filesystem backup program), restore (a program for
restoring files from a backup), and tar (an archiving program).

I'm not sure if a version is supplied with Fedora, but you can always grab 
the upstream one at the above URL and build your own RPM. I've been using 
that since my SunOS days in the late 80's. I just wish there was a Windows 
port so I could back up to my tape drive on my Win2003 server.