Linux Tape Device Emulation?

Mon Jan 16 14:26:46 PST 2006

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Alvin,

Specifically, what I'm looking for, is a method to interface a  
volume, or block device, as a tape, so that I can
then have remote devices read/write to that volume as a RMT (remote  
magnetic tape) device.  I have a mail
system that only supports local tape, RMT or NDMP for backups... NDMP  
is way out of my budget right now (lowest cost
software I've found that does ndmp reliably is almost as much as the  
mail system cost.. about $20k), and I'd rather
not buy a tape drive right now, if I could avoid it.

On Jan 16, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Alvin Oga wrote:

>
> what part of "tape device emulation" are you looking for ??
>
> "disks" can do some of the work but:
>
> - tar can talk to tapes or disks for debugging some of the "tape sw"
> - disks can do raid1
>
> - eject and mt won't work on disks :-)
>

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