Re: ontape back-up/restore to remote device

Neil Truby wrote: > > Andreas Zeugswetter wrote: > > > > The following reply from David was incorrect: > > > > for the backup there is only one open and one close > > only at restore time, two open calls occur in the described manner. > > > > Yes, I can verify that this is true. There's no problem in using ontape > to dump to the 2nd (or whatever) archive on a tape using /dev/rmt/0n. > It's no use to man or beast 'though (well, certainly not beast), as you > can't restore from the archive for the reasons David Williams gave. > > Neil Well, actually you can restore from there, if you let ontape read from a fifo, and send the backup to this fifo twice.