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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:19:39 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jonas@mcs.com (Lars Jonas Olsson)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org, jonas@mcs.net
Subject:   Re: remote tape control
Message-ID:  <199603282249.JAA17933@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <m0u2J0G-0005xyC@mars.mcs.com> from "Lars Jonas Olsson" at Mar 28, 96 08:48:44 am

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Lars Jonas Olsson stands accused of saying:
> 
>  Our tar and dump have support for using device on other host, but mt
> is lacking this support. Is there any mt with support for controlling
> remote tape drives? (supports mt -f user@host:device rewind)

rsh -l user host "mt -f device rewind"

>  What other system is recommended for backing up to remote host?

Tar and dump are good, so is amanda (see the ports collection).

> Jonas

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