If you have your WPs and AWs connected with a 2nd network, you could run the traffic over that network instead. Just add the 2nd Ethernet name to /.rhosts and use it as the machine name. Having the machines tied together using the 2nd Ethernet port is - generally speaking - a good thing to do. Regards, Alex Johnson Invensys Systems, Inc. 10707 Haddington Houston, TX 77043 713.722.2859 (office) 713.722.2700 (switchboard) 713.932.0222 (fax) ajohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx For the latest information on ArchestrA, go to www.invensys.com/Archestra.html. -----Original Message----- From: Keith, Tommy [mailto:Tommy.Keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 6:49 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] mounting a remote tape drive for backup purposes Make sure the logical name is in the /.rhosts file, then from usr/local of the WP do a wpdmp0_8MM <Awname>. I have several very large nodes some running 60+ stations and I have experienced Fault tolerant CP's going single during remote backups because of the node buss traffic, for this reason I have added tape drives not to every WP but to each type of WP (ie. WPA's, WPB's, WPD's etc.) -----Original Message----- From: Penndorf, Rocco (RP) [mailto:RPPenndorf@xxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 3:32 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] mounting a remote tape drive for backup purposes Hi list, the setup in our plant is as follows. We're running 5 nodes with 5 AW51's and 9 WP's attached to it.=20 The AW's do have external tape drives, the WP's don't. In order to do a full backup of a WP we connected one of the AW tape drives to the WP and boot the WP from cdrom.=20 Questions:=20 Is it possible to fully backup a WP on a tape drive what is connected to an AW? - without booting the WP from cdrom How can i make the AW tape drive seeable from WP? Will this backup process (through network) slow down the machine too much? Regards =20 =20 Rocco Penndorf Process Control Engineer / Acrylic Acid Plant DOW - Boehlen Tel.: +49 (0) 34206-8-7524 Fax: +49 (0) 34206-8-7522 E-Mail: rppenndorf@xxxxxxx =20 =20 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html =20 foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Djoin to unsubscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Dleave =20 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave