[Info-vax] Backup to remote tape drive

[JF Mezei]

Syltrem wrote:

> See
> 5.42.5 How do I write a BACKUP saveset to a remote tape?
> at http://hoffmanlabs.org/vmsfaq/vmsfaq_011.html

If Hoff says it should work, then it should work. He has got a tad more
experience that all of us combined :-)

Is it possible that Backup tried tries to open 2 channels to the outpout
? (hence your 2 log files and the second one failing)

Backup is one of the utilities that has gone trough some fairly radical
changes over the years.

I still think your best bet would be to cluster the 2 nodes, enable
tmscp so that the node 2's tape drive can be used/accessed by node 1.


Another thing you could try is mofify the sys$system:FAL.COM to mount
the tape. Then use a normal decnet.

backup/noinit <source> sybil"shepard pass"::mka500:mysaveset.save/save

Obviously, this would be a test only.

Or perhaps copy FAL.COM to "BACKUP_REMOTE.COM", have it mount the tape
and then invoke FA:.EXE to do the writing. Could that work ?