backing up several machines to one tape?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@Think.COM>]

    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 15:56 EDT
    From: Hans Tallis <tallis@starbase.mitre.org>

    I have 3 symbolics machines (two ivories, one non-ivory); one of the ivories
    has an exabyte drive on it.  I'd like to back up all three LMFSes onto the
    exabyte.  Is there a simple way to do this (preferably without a lot of mouse
    action)? 

Make sure that the machine with the tape drive has

	Service: TAPE TCP RTAPE
	Service: TAPE CHAOS RTAPE

in its namespace entry.  Then when the dumper asks where you want to
dump to, specify "name:device", where "name" is the name of the machine
with the tape drive, and "device" is the name of the Exabyte drive on
that machine (I'm not sure how SCSI devices are named on Ivory systems).
The machine running the dump will then connect to the tape server over
the network.

                                                barmar