In HP-UX 10.2 you are allowed to use a remote 8mm or DAT tape drive to back up local files. You can use SAM to make these backups, or you can use your archive softare of choice (tar, dump, cpio, dd, etc.). However, you must configure your workstations to allow user root remote access to the tape drive.
For example, let's assume we have two HP workstations (or an HP workstation
and another UNIX computer). On machine1 we have a tape drive, and
on machine2 we do not. To set up the appropriate permissions, you must
create a file called .rhosts in the home directory
of user root on both machine1 and machine2. The .rhosts
files must have read-only permissions
(# chmod 400 .rhosts) and must belong to the user, which
in this case is user root.
On machine1, the contents of the .rhosts file are:
machine1 machine2on machine2, the contents of the
.rhosts file are:
machine2 machine1Once these files exist, and have the appropriate permissions, you can now use SAM or your backup tool of choice to access the tape drive on machine1 from machine2.