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| In article <1991Mar1.170232.22655@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) writes:
[...]		it sure would be nice to be able to use the tape drive
| hanging off the VAXen to back up our PC file servers also.


kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
| The easiest way to do it is with the rmt protocol. 
|    If your vaxen are running a Unix variant you are free and easy.  If your
| tcp/ip package supports rmt (I know Multinet does, I know UCX doesn't, and
| I suspect CMU/Tek doesn't either), you are home free.  If not, you will 
| probably need to replace it.

  A word of warning about VMS: Multinet rmt implicitly does a rewind/unload
after each dump (because VMS ses the unix process exiting..), therefor
ensuring only one dump/tape. You will have to research the Multinet options
carefully: one is applied on the rmt itself, the other is on the device
string...  It's tricky, and I don't remember them clearly.

--dave
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