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From: hope@gatech.edu (Theodore Hope @ LEGOLAND)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Remote magtape
Message-ID: <15097@gatech.gatech.edu>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 16:49:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 24 16:49:08 1987
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In article <2644@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>Rdump and rrestore are the only programs I know that use
>remote tape drives, but many is the time I wished for rtar.

I don't know if you'd consider the following a kludge, but I
use the following to read a tar tape on a remote machine:

   % rsh remote dd of=/dev/rmt8 ibs=10240 | tar xvf -	(tar bs of 20)

An analogous command can be used to write tar on a remote tape.
-- 
Theodore Hope
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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