Hi, I have a ultra 5 running solaris version8. This has no tape drive but is connected to our LAN. Does anyone know if it is possible to remotly mount a tape drive to backup the data on the u5. If so how can I do this?

Yes, it is possible. But you have a couple of options. 1. Networker Software (Legato) can run backup's over the network. You just have to have a tape drive or juke box connected to the server running Legato. (The client would be your ultra 5). 2. You could nfs mount the tape drive of another server as long as its shared. 3. tar your whole file-system starting with root and then transfering the .tar file to another server. If you have more than 50% disk space and Large partition free do this: 4 Gig partion free = /space The will take everything below the root partition (which is essentailly the whole server) and put it into a tar file called NEW_BACKUP.tar under the /space directory. tar -cvf /space/NEW_BACKUP.tar /