Could you perform your backup to a disk file and then copy
that disk file elsewhere - e.g., to tape over the network?
Lots of disk space used, but it gets around not having an
autoload tape drive or one without sufficient capacity.
 
Jeff Brown
 
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In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] says...
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>Christian Super ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>: We are attempting to back up a HP3000 948 and HP9000 G50 to a tape
>: drive on our Novell 3.12 network.  (Don't ask...if HP would deliver an
>: autoloader tape drive we wouldn't be doing this.)
>
>: Once we upgrade the 948 to MPE V, both systems will have NFS
>: capability.
>
>I assume you mean MPE/iX 5.0 rather than MPE V :-)
>
>There is no NFS capability included in MPE/iX 5.0. The only NFS
>solution for MPE which will let you access files on the 3000 is
>NFS/iX from Quest Software. It has been available since 4.0, so
>you wouldn't need to go to 5.0 before using it (although there
>is a much-enhanced 5.0 version which tightly integrates with the
>MPE Posix environment).
>
>: On the Novell side, we have a Conner DDS (DAT) 4mm tape drive with 8
GB
>: capacity.  We are using Palindrome's Backup Director software.
>
>: According to...HP, Novell, Palindrome...we should be able to back the
>: HP systems up on the Conner drive attached to the Novell network.
>
>NFS knows nothing about MPE file attributes, so it is not useful
>for backing up an HP3000 in most cases. You could copy data files
>from a 3000, but copying them back they would only have the data
>and not any of the proper file attributes, so there's really no
>way to use NFS as a replacement for the kind of backup that :STORE
>gives you.
>
>G.
>
>P.S. Quest Software is at (714) 720-1434