From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 4:54:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664F237B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:54:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA7F143F43 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:54:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ctanghe@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 18208 invoked by uid 0); 21 Jan 2003 12:54:33 -0000 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:54:33 +0100 (MET) From: Christian Tanghe To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: virtual tape or streamer device for backup purposes possible X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated-Sender: #0000203128@gmx.net X-Authenticated-IP: [80.135.168.203] Message-ID: <23814.1043153673@www22.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.6 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, is it possible to configure a virtual tape, just working on an other harddisk? Lokaly or on any other Server in the network Writing an reading on it should be transparent for commands like tar, cpio or any backup software. Or in other words: Can you only load a driver for an non existent streamer and use it to write on disk? Or do I need a special software solution? If you will excuse me ;), anybody knows if it exists a comparable solution under Linux? greetings Christian -- -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message