Accessing Tape Drive on another linux system

[Mike McCarty]

Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 22:50 +0400, amar_padhi 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. This way we
>>will be able to do online backups direct to the server B tape drive
>>from server A databases. Redhat support informed that this is not
>>possible, i.e., tape drives cannot be shared across the network.
> 
> 
> What about doing it the opposite way?  Share the systems to be backed up
> to the server, and have the server do a backup of their shared
> resources.

A *very* sensible and workable solution.

Mike
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