Backing up multiple user data

[Janina Sajka]

Luke Davis writes:
> Yeah, but how is it listening?  I'll have to read up on this, as I find 

One other tidbit I uncovered in my searches yesterday on this subject
was a reference to the default tape device /dev--whatever I don't recall
now.

Is it possible this is such legacy code that the HOSTNAME:filename
syntax literally points to the standard tape dev? I rather suspect this
is the answer.

> this interesting.  The question being: can I fake rmt, with netcat or 
> perl?
> 
> 
>  On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> >Yeah, Gregory, the documentation is rather short on explanations but I
> >finally figured it out.
> >
> >What is listening is rmt.
> >
> >I believe that's shorthand for "remote tape."
> >
> 
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